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Embedded contact homology and open book decompositions
This is the first of a series of papers devoted to proving the equivalence of
Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology (abbreviated ECH). In
this paper we prove that, given a closed, oriented, contact -manifold, there
is an equivalence between ECH of the closed -manifold and a version of ECH,
defined on the complement of the binding of an adapted open book decomposition.Comment: First revision: A mistake in our use of Morse-Bott techniques in ECH
has been fixed and results on sutured ECH have been added. Second revision:
bibliography updated. Third revision: exposition improved and details added
following referees' suggestions. Fourth revision: we added an appendix
sketching the proof of the Morse-Bott gluing statements used in the articl
On the coarse classification of tight contact structures
We present a sketch of the proof of the following theorems: (1) Every
3-manifold has only finitely many homotopy classes of 2-plane fields which
carry tight contact structures. (2) Every closed atoroidal 3-manifold carries
finitely many isotopy classes of tight contact structures.Comment: 12 pages, to appear in the 2001 Georgia International Topology
Conference proceeding
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