Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations

Abstract

In this note we observe, answering a question of Eliashberg and Thurston, that all contact structures on a closed oriented 3-manifold are $C^{\infty }$-deformations of foliations.

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References in corpus (1)

• Géométrie de contact: de la dimension trois vers les dimensions supérieures