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Taut foliations
William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts
We describe notions of tautness that arise in the study of foliations, or smoother foliations, and in geometry. We give examples to show that these notions are diff…
Foliation Theory
William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts
Transverse one dimensional foliations play an important role in the study of codimension one foliations. In \cite{KR2}, the authors introduced the notion of flow box decomposition…
Approximations of foliations
William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts
Suppose that is a transversely oriented, codimension one foliation of a connected, closed, oriented 3-manifold. Suppose also that has continuous tangent p…
Approximating -foliations
William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts
We extend the Eliashberg-Thurston theorem on approximations of taut oriented -foliations of 3-manifolds by both positive and negative contact structures to a large class of ta…
Fractional Dehn twists in knot theory and contact topology
William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts
Fractional Dehn twists give a measure of the difference between the relative isotopy class of a homeomorphism of a bordered surface and the Thurston representative of its free isot…
Contact structures, sutured Floer homology and TQFT
Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matic
We describe the natural gluing map on sutured Floer homology which is induced by the inclusion of one sutured manifold (M',Γ') into a larger sutured manifold (M,Γ), together with a…