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Monopoles and contact 3-manifolds

Jih-Hsin Cheng, Hung-Lin Chiu

math.DGarXiv:math/9905066

Abstract

We propose the study of some kind of monopole equations directly associated with a contact structure. Through a rudimentary analysis about the solutions, we show that a closed contact 3-manifold with positive Tanaka-Webster curvature and vanishing torsion must be either not symplectically semifillable or having torsion Euler class of the contact structure.

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