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Jan 9, 2015 at 5:20 comment added John Pardon Hi Patrick! I've edited the answer, and hopefully it is correct now.
Jan 9, 2015 at 5:19 history edited John Pardon CC BY-SA 3.0
added orientation condition as per Patrick Massot's comment
Jan 8, 2015 at 10:22 comment added Patrick Massot For the record, one must point out that there are very important orientation assumptions to be added to the definition, see Giroux's paper.
Dec 8, 2014 at 0:21 vote accept Guest
Dec 7, 2014 at 1:39 comment added John Pardon See the edit above. The binding is just any codimension two submanifold, not necessarily a sphere.
Dec 7, 2014 at 1:38 history edited John Pardon CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 7, 2014 at 1:29 comment added Guest Thanks, what do we mean by the binding in higher dimensions? For dimension 3 we have an $S^1$ -knot, what do we have for higher dimensions, some special embedding, maybe an isomorphic embedding of $S^{2n+1-2}=S^{2n-1}$ in $M^{2n+1}$?
Dec 7, 2014 at 1:23 history answered John Pardon CC BY-SA 3.0