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Proof of Giroux's correspondence

I haven't read it carefully, but the new paper here by Licata-Vértesi appears to be (finally) a complete proof, albeit one that is different from the original.
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Is a simple J-holomorphic curve injective everywhere except for finitely many points?

Yes it must be proved in that same book, or any/every basic book, going back to the fundamental proof by Micallef--White: The critical points and the self-intersection points are isolated, as there is ...
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