Contact cuts

Authors
Citation
E. Lerman, Contact cuts, ISR J MATH, 124, 2001, pp. 77-92
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
ISRAEL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
ISSN journal
00212172 → ACNP
Volume
124
Year of publication
2001
Pages
77 - 92
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-2172(2001)124:<77:CC>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We describe a contact analog of the symplectic cut construction [L]. As an application we show that the group of contactomorphisms for certain overtwi sted contact structures on lens spaces contains countably many non-conjugat e two tori.