Open book decompositions for contact structures on Brieskorn manifolds
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Abstract:
In this paper, we give an open book decomposition for the contact structures on some Brieskorn manifolds, in particular for the contact structures of Ustilovsky. The decomposition uses right-handed Dehn twists as conjectured by Giroux.References
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Additional Information
- Otto van Koert
- Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86-90, 50.931 Köln, Federal Republic of Germany
- Email: okoert@mi.uni-koeln.de
- Klaus Niederkrüger
- Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86-90, 50.931 Köln, Federal Republic of Germany
- Email: kniederk@mi.uni-koeln.de
- Received by editor(s): June 21, 2004
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 16, 2004
- Published electronically: June 8, 2005
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2005
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 3679-3686
- MSC (2000): Primary 53D10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07944-X
- MathSciNet review: 2163607