Abstract
Contact structures on 3-dimensional manifolds are divided into two categories overtwisted structures and tight structures due to Eliashberg In this thesis we discuss their existence and the tools to distinguish them including Giroux's criterion and Thurston-Bennequin inequality| Date of Award | 2015 Aug 25 |
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| Original language | English |
| Supervisor | Meng-Jung Chiang (Supervisor) |