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An Introduction to Contact Topology

Hansjörg Geiges
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2008
Number of Pages: 
440
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 109
Price: 
90.00
ISBN: 
9780521865852
Category: 
Monograph
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Foreword; 1. Facets of Contact Geometry; 2. Contact Manifolds; 3. Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds; 4. Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds; 5. Symplectic Fillings and Convexity; 6. Contact Surgery; 7. Further Constructions of Contact Manifolds; 8. Contact Structures on 5-Manifolds; Appendix A: The generalised Poincaré lemma; Appendix B: Time-dependent vector fields; References; Notation Index; Author Index; Subject Index.