Brieskorn manifolds as contact branched covers of spheres
Abstract
We show that Brieskorn manifolds with their standard contact structures are contact branched coverings of spheres. This covering maps a contact open book decomposition of the Brieskorn manifold onto a Milnor open book of the sphere.
- Publication:
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arXiv Mathematics e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2005
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.math/0509660
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/0509660
- Bibcode:
- 2005math......9660O
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Geometric Topology;
- Mathematics - Symplectic Geometry
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 1 figure