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2014 Open book foliation
Tetsuya Ito, Keiko Kawamuro
Geom. Topol. 18(3): 1581-1634 (2014). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2014.18.1581

Abstract

We study open book foliations on surfaces in 3–manifolds and give applications to contact geometry of dimension 3. We prove a braid-theoretic formula for the self-linking number of transverse links, which reveals an unexpected connection with to the Johnson–Morita homomorphism in mapping class group theory. We also give an alternative combinatorial proof of the Bennequin–Eliashberg inequality.

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Tetsuya Ito. Keiko Kawamuro. "Open book foliation." Geom. Topol. 18 (3) 1581 - 1634, 2014. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2014.18.1581

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Received: 25 January 2013; Revised: 3 September 2013; Accepted: 19 October 2013; Published: 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1303.57012
MathSciNet: MR3228459
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2014.18.1581

Subjects:
Primary: 57M27
Secondary: 53D35 , 57M50 , 57R17

Keywords: contact structure , Johnson–Morita homomorphism , open book decomposition , self-linking number

Rights: Copyright © 2014 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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