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Contact surgery and contact invariant

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Speaker: 
Bulent Tosun
Organiser(s): 
U of Virginia/MPI
Date: 
Mon, 26/05/2014 - 16:30 - 18:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
One of the fundamental, and still widely open, problems in 3-dimensional contact geometry is the existence of a tight contact structure on a fixed 3-manifold. One is, in particular, interested in explicit construction of such structures.
In my talk, I will first review known results which hopefully will motivate the notion of contact surgery, then will explain main result that answers the
fundamental problem above for some class of three manifolds.
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