Introductory Lectures on Contact Geometry

2001/11/09 by John B. Etnyre, Etnyre, John B.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0111118

22 pages, 14 figures, corrected proof of Theorem 4.15

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Abstract

These notes are an expanded version of an introductory lecture on contact geometry given at the 2001 Georgia Topology Conference. They are intended to present some of the "topological" aspects of three dimensional contact geometry.

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