Transverse universal links

2017/12/28 by Casals, Roger, Etnyre, John B. · 1 citation
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1712.09968

Abstract

We show that there exists a transverse link in the standard contact structures on the 3-sphere such that all contact 3-manifolds are contact branched covers over this transverse link.

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