Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations
John B. Etnyre
math.SGarXiv:math/0607825
Abstract
In this note we observe, answering a question of Eliashberg and Thurston, that all contact structures on a closed oriented 3-manifold are C∞-deformations of foliations.
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