2017/02/24 by Joan E. Licata, Licata, Joan E., Daniel V. Mathews +1
Mathematics · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.07547
The first author in recent work with D. Gay developed the notion of a Morse structure on an open book as a tool for studying closed contact 3-manifolds. We extend the notion of Morse structure to extendable partial open books in order to study contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary.