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Tightness and Legendrian surgery
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A well known result of Giroux tells us that isotopy classes of contact structures on a closed three manifold are in one to one correspondence with stabilization classes of open book decompositions of the manifold. We will introduce a characterization of tightness of a contact structure in terms of corresponding open book decompositions, and show how this can be used to resolve the question of whether tightness is preserved under Legendrian surgery. (1 hour long talk)
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