Taut foliations

  • Vincent Colin
  • , William H. Kazez
  • , Rachel Roberts

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Abstract

We describe notions of tautness that arise in the study of C0 foliations, C1;0 or smoother foliations, and in geometry. We give examples to show that these notions are different. We prove that these variations of tautness are equivalent up to topological conjugacy, but their differences impact some classical foliation results. In particular, we construct examples of smoothly taut C∞;0 foliations that can be C0 approximated by both weakly symplectically fillable, universally tight contact structures and by overtwisted contact structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)357-375
Number of pages19
JournalCommunications in Analysis and Geometry
Volume27
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

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