Classification of tight contact structures on small Seifert 3–manifolds with $e_0\geq 0$
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Abstract:
We classify positive, tight contact structures on closed Seifert fibered 3–manifolds with base $S^2$, three singular fibers and $e_0\geq 0$.References
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Additional Information
- Paolo Ghiggini
- Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- MR Author ID: 728686
- Email: ghiggini@mail.dm.unipi.it
- Paolo Lisca
- Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- Email: lisca@dm.unipi.it
- András I. Stipsicz
- Affiliation: Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1053 Budapest, Reáltanoda utca 13–15, Hungary
- Address at time of publication: Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
- MR Author ID: 346634
- Email: stipsicz@math.ias.edu
- Received by editor(s): June 4, 2004
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 10, 2004
- Published electronically: August 29, 2005
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 909-916
- MSC (2000): Primary 57R17, 57R57
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08013-5
- MathSciNet review: 2180909