Positive flow-spines and contact 3-manifolds, II

Ippei Ishii, Masaharu Ishikawa, Yuya Koda, Hironobu Naoe

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Abstract

In our previous paper, it is proved that for any positive flow-spine P of a closed, oriented 3-manifold M, there exists a unique contact structure supported by P up to isotopy. In particular, this defines a map from the set of isotopy classes of positive flow-spines of M to the set of isotopy classes of contact structures on M. In this paper, we show that this map is surjective. As a corollary, we show that any flow-spine can be deformed to a positive flow-spine by applying first and second regular moves successively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1251-1266
Number of pages16
JournalAnnali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata
Volume203
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024 Jun

Keywords

  • 3-Dimensional manifold
  • 57Q15
  • Contact structure
  • Flow
  • Polyhedron
  • Primary 57K33
  • Secondary 57M50
  • Spine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Mathematics

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