On the nonexistence of tight contact structures

DOI10.2307/2661367zbMath1061.53062arXivmath/9910115OpenAlexW2064515509MaRDI QIDQ1826273

John B. Etnyre, Ko Honda

Publication date: 5 August 2004

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910115

zbMATH Keywords

overtwisted contact structuretight contact structures, Poincaré sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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