Tight contact structures on lens spaces

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 559-577

  Etnyre, John B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact structure; Lens spaces; Tight

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044522586     PISSN: 02191997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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