Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations

Details Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations

2006-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/math/0607825v2

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Symplectic Geometry

4 pages. Typos and misstatements corrected

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

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