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Diagrams for contact 5-manifolds
Fan Ding, Hansjörg Geiges, Otto van Koert
According to Giroux, contact manifolds can be described as open books whose pages are Stein manifolds. For 5-dimensional contact manifolds the pages are Stein surfaces, which permi…
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Lecture notes on stabilization of contact open books
Otto van Koert
This note explains how to relate some contact geometric operations, such as surgery, to operations on an underlying contact open book. In particular, we shall give a simple proof o…