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Notes on the isotopy finiteness

Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux, Ko Honda

This is the less official, English version of the proof of the fact that every closed atoroidal 3-manifold carries finitely many isotopy classes of tight contact structures.

math.GT2003

On the coarse classification of tight contact structures

Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux, Ko Honda

We present a sketch of the proof of the following theorems: (1) Every 3-manifold has only finitely many homotopy classes of 2-plane fields which carry tight contact structures. (2)…

math.GT2001

On the Gabai-Eliashberg-Thurston theorem

Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matic

We present a new, completely three-dimensional proof of the fact, due to Gabai-Eliashberg-Thurston, that every closed, oriented, irreducible 3-manifold with nonzero second homology…

math.GT2001

Tight contact structures on fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matic

We take a first step towards understanding the relationship between foliations and universally tight contact structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. If a surface bundle over a circle…

math.GT2001

Gluing tight contact structures

Ko Honda

We prove gluing theorems for tight contact structures. In particular, we rederive (as special cases) gluing theorems due to Colin and Makar-Limanov, and present an algorithm for de…

math.GT2001

Convex decomposition theory

Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matic

We use convex decomposition theory to (1) reprove the existence of a universally tight contact structure on every irreducible 3-manifold with nonempty boundary, and (2) prove that…