Tight contact structures via dynamics

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3697-3706

  Etnyre, John ^a   Christ, Robert ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reeb flows; Tight contact structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844454230     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-99-05377-0     Document Type: Article

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