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Proof of Giroux's correspondence
It is extensively used and cited the following statement due to Giroux:
Given a closed $3$-manifold $M$, there is a $1:1$ correspondence between oriented contact structures on $M$ up to isotopy and ...
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Where are $+$, $-$ and $\infty$ in bordered Heegaard-Floer theory?
Here goes my first MO-question. I've just read Lipshitz, Ozsváth and Thurston's recently updated "A tour of bordered Floer theory". To set the stage let me give two quotes from this paper.
Heegaard ...
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contact structure on 3 manifolds
every orientable closed 3-manifold admits a contact structure. how we can construct this contact structure? if the manifold is prime what will happen?
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