Contact structures and foliations on 3-manifolds

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-35

  Eliashberg, Yakov M ^a   Thurston, William P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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