Contact geometry and the mapping class group. (English) Zbl 1496.57021
This is a very short exposition of cutting and gluing of 3-manifolds, mapping class groups, contact structures and their interrelations.
MSC:
| 57K33 | Contact structures in 3 dimensions |
| 57K20 | 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) |
| 57K30 | General topology of 3-manifolds |
| 57R17 | Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension |
| 53D05 | Symplectic manifolds (general theory) |
