## Algebraic & Geometric Topology

### Tight contact structures on Seifert manifolds over $T^2$ with one singular fibre

Paolo Ghiggini

#### Abstract

In this article we classify up to isotopy tight contact structures on Seifert manifolds over the torus with one singular fibre.

#### Article information

Source
Algebr. Geom. Topol., Volume 5, Number 2 (2005), 785-833.

Dates
Received: 27 October 2003
Revised: 14 July 2005
Accepted: 24 January 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513796432

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/agt.2005.5.785

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2153106

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1084.57025

Subjects
Primary: 57R17: Symplectic and contact topology
Secondary: 57M50: Geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

#### Citation

Ghiggini, Paolo. Tight contact structures on Seifert manifolds over $T^2$ with one singular fibre. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 5 (2005), no. 2, 785--833. doi:10.2140/agt.2005.5.785. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513796432

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