On the existence of tight contact structures on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds

Abstract

We determine the closed, oriented Seifert fibered 3-manifolds which carry positive tight contact structures. Our main tool is a new non-vanishing criterion for the contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariant.

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