TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geiges,Hansjörg
TI  - An introduction to contact topology
T2  - Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics
SN  - 9780511611438 (ebook)
AV  - QA613.659 .G45 2008
U1  - 514.72 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Symplectic and contact topology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - This text on contact topology is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, including recent striking applications in geometric and differential topology: Eliashberg's proof of Cerf's theorem via the classification of tight contact structures on the 3-sphere, and the Kronheimer-Mrowka proof of property P for knots via symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds. Starting with the basic differential topology of contact manifolds, all aspects of 3-dimensional contact manifolds are treated in this book. One notable feature is a detailed exposition of Eliashberg's classification of overtwisted contact structures. Later chapters also deal with higher-dimensional contact topology. Here the focus is on contact surgery, but other constructions of contact manifolds are described, such as open books or fibre connected sums. This book serves both as a self-contained introduction to the subject for advanced graduate students and as a reference for researchers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611438
ER  -