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Visualizing Overtwisted Discs in Open Books
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Visualizing Overtwisted Discs in Open Books

Tetsuya Ito and Keiko Kawamuro
Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Vol.50(1), pp.169-180
2014
DOI: 10.4171/PRIMS/128
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Abstract

We give an alternative proof of a theorem of Honda{Kazez{Mati c that every non-right-veering open book supports an overtwisted contact structure. We also study two types of examples that show how overtwisted discs are embedded relative to right-veering open books.
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