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Reeb periodic orbits after a bypass attachment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2013

ANNE VAUGON*
Affiliation:
Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5669, ENS Lyon, UMPA, 46 allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France email anne.vaugon@ens-lyon.fr

Abstract

On a three-dimensional contact manifold with boundary, a bypass attachment is an elementary change of the contact structure consisting in the attachment of a thickened half-disc with a prescribed contact structure along an arc on the boundary. We give a model bypass attachment in which we describe the periodic orbits of the Reeb vector field created by the bypass attachment in terms of Reeb chords of the attachment arc. As an application, we compute the contact homology of a product neighbourhood of a convex surface after a bypass attachment, and the contact homology of some contact structures on solid tori.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2013 

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