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Classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds

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Research partially supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-87-01609

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Eliashberg, Y. Classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds. Invent Math 98, 623–637 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393840

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