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The 1997 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
April 10-12, 1997
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Lafayette, LA, USA

Organizers
Bradd Clark, Kathleen Lopez, Vic Schneider, Roger Waggoner, Thelma West

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Contact structures associated to flows
by
Robert Ghrist
University of Texas, Austin
Coauthors: John Etnyre

We consider the relationship between the geometry of contact structures (nowhere integrable plane fields) on 3-manifolds and the dynamics of flows associated to such plane fields. This leads to applications involving the existence of tight contact structures associated to Anosov flows, as well as contact structures which are naturally fitted to a class of three-dimensional fluid flows.

Date received: February 13, 1997

Copyright © 1997 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caam-03.