Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

Matthew Strom Borman; Yakov Eliashberg; Emmy Murphy

doi:10.1007/s11511-016-0134-4

Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

Matthew Strom Borman, Yakov Eliashberg^*, Emmy Murphy

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Abstract

We establish a parametric extension h-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the 3-dimensional result from [12]. It implies, in particular, that any closed manifold admits a contact structure in any given homotopy class of almost contact structures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	281-361
Number of pages	81
Journal	Acta Mathematica
Volume	215
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11511-016-0134-4
State	Published - Dec 1 2015

Funding

M. S. B. was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1304252, Y. E. was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1205349, E. M. was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1510305.

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