Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore

Petronio, Carlo

These notes originate from a seminar held in Pisa in November and December 1996 jointly by Riccardo Benedetti, Paolo Lisca and me. The aim of these notes is to give a detailed proof of the following result due to Eliashberg and Thurston: THM Let M be a closed oriented 3-manifold and let F be a cooriented C2-smooth codimension-1 foliation on M. Assume that (M,F) is not diffeomorphic to the product foliation on S2xS1. Then arbitrarily close to F in the C0 topology there exist a positive and a negative C\infty contact structure.

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Published by: Edizioni della Normale

Publication Date: 1997-10-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9788876422867

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Dimensions: 240cm x170cm

Pages: 61