Preprints
Preprints
A Duality Exact Sequence for Legendrian Contact Homology
joint work with Tobias Ekholm and Joshua Sabloff, Preprint 2008.
Fibered Transverse Knots and the Bennequin Bound
joint work with Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, Preprint 2008.
A note on Stein fillings of contact manifolds
joint work with Anar Akhmedov, Thomas E. Mark and Ivan Smith, Preprint 2007.
Lectures on contact geometry in low-dimensional topology
Preprint 2006.
Publications
On contact surgery
To Appear in Proc.~Amer.~Math.~Soc..
Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations
To Appear in MRL.
Invariants of contact structures from open books
joint work with Burak Ozbagci, To Appear in Trans.~Amer.~Math.~Soc.
Open books and plumbings
joint work with Burak Ozbagci, IMRN
2006
(2006), 1--17.
Realizing 4-manifolds as achiral Lefschetz fibrations
joint work with Terry Fuller, IMRN
2006
(2006), 1--21.
Legendrian Contact Homology in $P\times\R$
joint work with Tobias Ekholm and Michael G. Sullivan, Trans.~Amer.~Math.~Soc
359
(2007), 3301--3335.
Contact Manifolds
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, eds. J.-P. Fran\c{c}oise, G.L. Naber and S.T. Tsou, Oxford: Elsevier, v. 1 2006631--636.
Invariants of Knots, Embeddings and Immersions via Contact Geometry
joint work with Tobias Ekholm, Fields Inst. Commun.
47
(2005), 77--96.
Lectures on open book decompositions and contact structures
Clay Math. Proc. 5 (the proceedings of the ``Floer Homology, Gauge Theory, and Low Dimensional Topology Workshop''), 2006103--141.
Cabling and transverse simplicity
joint work with Ko Honda, Annals of Math
162
(2005), 1305-1333.
Generic hydrodynamic instability of curl eigenfields
joint work with Robert Ghrist, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst.
4
(2005), no. 2, 377-390.
Orientations in Legendrian Contact Homology and Exact Lagrangian Immersions
joint work with Tobias Ekholm and Michael G. Sullivan, IJM
16
(2005), no. 5, 453-532.
Legendrian and Transversal Knots
in the Handbook of Knot Theory (Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam), 2005105-185.
The Contact Homology of Legendrian Submanifolds in $\R^{2n+1}$
joint work with Tobias Ekholm and Michael G. Sullivan, J. Differential Geom.
71
(2005), no. 2, 177-305.
Non-isotopic Legendrian Submanifolds in $\R^{2n+1}$
joint work with Tobias Ekholm and Michael G. Sullivan, J. Differential Geom.
71
(2005), no. 1, 85-128.
Planar open book decompositions and contact structures
IMRN
2004
(2004), no. 79, 4255-4267.
On Symplectic Fillings
Algebr. Geom. Topol.
4
(2004), 73-80.
On connected sums and Legendrian knots
joint work with Ko Honda, Adv. Math.
179
(2003), 59-74.
Introductory Lectures on Contact Geometry
Proc. Sympos. Pure Math.
71
(2003), 81-107.
Problems in Low Dimensional Contact Topology
joint work with Lenhard Ng, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math.
71
(2003), 337-357.
Tight contact structures and Anosov flows
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Topol. and its Appl.
124
(2002), 211-219.
Invariants of Legendrian knots and coherent orientations
joint work with Lenhard Ng and Joshua Sabloff, J. Sympl. Geom.
1
(2002), no. 2, 321-368.
Contact topology and hydrodynamics II solid tori
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Ergod. Th. \& Dynam. Sys.
22
(2002), 819-833.
Tight contact structures with no symplectic fillings
joint work with Ko Honda, Invent. Math.
148
(2002), no. 3, 609-626.
On Symplectic Cobordisms
joint work with Ko Honda, Math. Annalen
323
(2002), no. 1, 31-39.
Knots and contact geometry I torus knots and the figure eight knot
joint work with Ko Honda, J. Sympl. Geom.
1
(2001), no. 1, 63-120.
An index for closed orbits in Beltrami fields
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Phys. D
159
(2001), no. 3-4, 180-189.
Erratum to tight contact structures on lens spaces
Commun. Contemp. Math.
3
(2001), no. 4, 649-652.
On the nonexistence of tight contact structures
joint work with Ko Honda, Ann. of Math. (2)
153
(2001), no. 3, 749-766.
Tight contact structures on lens spaces
Commun. in Contemp. Math.
2
(2000), no. 4, 559-577.
Contact topology and hydrodynamics III knotted orbits
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
352
(2000), 5781-5794.
Contact topology and hydrodynamics I Beltrami fields and the Seifert Conjecture
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Nonlinearity
13
(2000), 441-458.
Stratified integrals and unknots in invicid flows
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Contemp. Math.
246
(1999), 99-111.
Gradient flows within plane fields
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Comm. Math. Helvetici
74
(1999), 507-529.
Tight contact structures via dynamics
joint work with Robert Ghrist, Proceedings of the AMS
127
(1999), 3697-3706.
Transversal torus knots
Geometry and Topology
3
(1999), 253-268.
Symplectic convexity in low-dimensional topology
Topol. and its Appl.
88
(1998), 3-25.
Smooth structures on collarable ends of 4-manifolds
joint work with Zarko Bizaka, Topology
37
(1998), 461-467.
Symplectic constructions on 4-manifolds
Dissertation, University of Texas
(December 1996), 1-92.
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