On tight contact structures with negative maximal twisting number on small Seifert manifolds

Abstract

We study some properties of transverse contact structures on small Seifert manifolds, and we apply them to the classification of tight contact structures on a family of small Seifert manifolds.

16 pages, 4 figures, exposition improved

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• Transverse contact structures on Seifert 3-manifolds
• Symplectic rational blow-down along Seifert fibered 3-manifolds