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Do any Legendrian knots in standard contact 3-space have big tubular neighborhoods?

Consider $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the standard contact structure $\ker(dz-y\,dx)$. According to the contact version of Weinstein's theorem, any Legendrian knot $L\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ has a tubular ...
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Are these contact structures on the open solid torus diffeomorphic?

Let $M=S^1\times \mathbb{R}^2$ and $\alpha_1, \alpha_2$ be a pair of contact one-forms on $M$ such that the restrictions $\alpha_1|_{S^1\times \{0\}}$, $\alpha_2|_{S^1\times \{0\}}$ coincide and ...
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Effect of a Lutz twist on Euler number

I already asked this question on the Math Stack Exchange but did not get an answer. I am currently working through Geiges proof of the Martinet-Lutz theorem, which can be found here, and am trying to ...
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