Ozsváth-Szabó invariants of contact surgeries
In this thesis, I am going to deal with contact manifolds of dimension three: these are orientable manifolds with a plane field that is nowhere tangent to a surface. Contact manifolds split into two families, the overtwisted ones and the tight ones, according to the presence or absence of a certain...
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University of Cambridge
2012
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