Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Facets of contact geometry
- 2 Contact manifolds
- 3 Knots in contact 3—manifolds
- 4 Contact structures on 3—manifolds
- 5 Symplectic fillings and convexity
- 6 Contact surgery
- 7 Further constructions of contact manifolds
- 8 Contact structures on 5—manifolds
- Appendix A The generalised Poincaré lemma
- Appendix B Time-dependent vector fields
- References
- Notation index
- Author index
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Facets of contact geometry
- 2 Contact manifolds
- 3 Knots in contact 3—manifolds
- 4 Contact structures on 3—manifolds
- 5 Symplectic fillings and convexity
- 6 Contact surgery
- 7 Further constructions of contact manifolds
- 8 Contact structures on 5—manifolds
- Appendix A The generalised Poincaré lemma
- Appendix B Time-dependent vector fields
- References
- Notation index
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
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- Chapter
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- An Introduction to Contact Topology , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008