{"title":"Positive flow-spines and contact 3-manifolds","authors":"Ippei Ishii, Masaharu Ishikawa, Yuya Koda, Hironobu Naoe","doi":"10.1007/s10231-023-01314-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A flow-spine of a 3-manifold is a spine admitting a flow that is transverse to the spine, where the flow in the complement of the spine is diffeomorphic to a constant flow in an open ball. We say that a contact structure on a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold is supported by a flow-spine if it has a contact form whose Reeb flow is a flow of the flow-spine. It is known by Thurston and Winkelnkemper that any open book decomposition of a closed oriented 3-manifold supports a contact structure. In this paper, we introduce a notion of positivity for flow-spines and prove that any positive flow-spine of a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold supports a contact structure uniquely up to isotopy. The positivity condition is critical to the existence of the unique, supported contact structure, which is also proved in the paper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8265,"journal":{"name":"Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10231-023-01314-1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A flow-spine of a 3-manifold is a spine admitting a flow that is transverse to the spine, where the flow in the complement of the spine is diffeomorphic to a constant flow in an open ball. We say that a contact structure on a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold is supported by a flow-spine if it has a contact form whose Reeb flow is a flow of the flow-spine. It is known by Thurston and Winkelnkemper that any open book decomposition of a closed oriented 3-manifold supports a contact structure. In this paper, we introduce a notion of positivity for flow-spines and prove that any positive flow-spine of a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold supports a contact structure uniquely up to isotopy. The positivity condition is critical to the existence of the unique, supported contact structure, which is also proved in the paper.
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