Planar Open Book Decompositions and Contact Structures
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In this note we observe that while all overtwisted contact structures on compact 3–manifolds are supported by planar open book decompositions, not all contact structures are. This has relevance to the Weinstein conjecture [1] and invariants of contact structures.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004