GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY

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GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY. MAIN GOAL: TO PROVE TOPOLOGICAL RESULTS ABOUT SMOOTH MANIFOLDS BY ENDOWING THEM WITH ADDITIONAL GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES. GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY OF LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS. SYMPLECTIC FOUR DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS CONTACT THREE DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS. Property P. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY

MAIN GOAL:

TO PROVE TOPOLOGICAL RESULTS ABOUT SMOOTH MANIFOLDS BY

ENDOWING THEM WITH ADDITIONAL GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES

GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY OF LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

SYMPLECTIC FOUR DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

CONTACT THREE DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

Property P

CONTACT THREE DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

Frobenius Theorem

Contact forms

Contact structure

Legendrian curve

A curve in a contact 3-manifold is called

Legendrian if it is everywhere tangent to the contact planes.

Overtwisted Disk

Tight versus overtwisted

Tight versus overtwisted

Darboux’s Theorem

Contact Topology

Global structure

Global structure

Classification of overtwisted contact structures

Martinet+Lutz+Eliashberg Overtwisted contact structures are classified:

There is, up to isotopy, a unique overtwisted

contact structure in every homotopy class of oriented plane fields.

Classification of tight contact structures?

Convex surfaces

2002 Giroux’s ICM talk in Beijing

Open books

Complement of the Hopf link in the 3-sphere fibers over the circle

Abstract open books

Mapping torus M

Stabilization of an open book

Stabilization of an open book

Open books and contact structures

Etnyre’s Lemma

Our recent contribution