Contact structures on 3--manifolds are deformations of foliations

• Autores: John B. Etnyre
• Localización: Mathematical research letters, ISSN 1073-2780, Vol. 14, Nº 5, 2007, págs. 775-779
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.4310/mrl.2007.v14.n5.a6
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• Resumen

  • In this note we observe, answering a question of Eliashberg and Thurston in \cite{EliashbergThurston98}, that all contact structures on a closed oriented 3--manifold are $C^\infty$-deformations of foliations.