Vanishing of the contact homology of overtwisted contact 3-manifolds
by
Mei-Lin Yau
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2006) P.211~P.229
ABSTRACT
We give a proof of, for the case of contact structures defined by global contact 1-forms, a theorem stated by Eliashberg that for any overtwisted contact structure on a closed 3-manifold, its contact homology is 0. A different proof is also outlined in the
appendix by Yakov Eliashberg.
KEYWORDS
Contact homology, open book, overtwisted contact structure
MATHEMATICAL SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION 2010
Primary: 57R17, 53D35
MILESTONES
Received: 2005-02-17
Revised :
Accepted:
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