Tight contact structures with no symplectic fillings

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 609-626

  Etnyre, John B ^a   Honda, Ko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0036016762     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220100204     Document Type: Article

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