Open book decomposition
Let be an
-dimensional manifold. An open book decomposition of
consists of a codimension-two submanifold
, called the binding, and a fibration
. The fibres are called the pages. One may require the fibration to be well behaved near
, i.e. that
have a tubular neighbourhood
such that
restricted to
is the mapping
.
The existence of an open book decomposition for any closed, orientable -manifold was proved by J.W. Alexander [a1]. He suggested that the binding may be assumed connected, but the first published proof of this fact was given by R. Myers [a4]. An independent proof (unpublished) is due to F.J. González-Acuña, see also [a5]. Any closed manifold of odd dimension
admits an open book decomposition [a3], and the same is true for any simply-connected manifold of even dimension
with vanishing index [a7].
Such structure theorems have been used to give explicit geometric constructions of contact structures and codimension-one foliations; see, for instance, [a6], [a2].
References
[a1] | J.W. Alexander, "A lemma on systems of knotted curves" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA , 9 (1923) pp. 93–95 Zbl 49.0408.03 |
[a2] | A.H. Durfee, H.B. Lawson Jr., "Fibered knots and foliations of highly connected manifolds" Invent. Math. , 17 (1972) pp. 203–215 MR0326752 Zbl 0231.57015 |
[a3] | T. Lawson, "Open book decompositions for odd dimensional manifolds" Topology , 17 (1978) pp. 189–192 MR0494132 Zbl 0384.57007 |
[a4] | R. Myers, "Open book decompositions of ![]() |
[a5] | D. Rolfsen, "Knots and links" , Publish or Perish (1976) MR0515288 Zbl 0339.55004 |
[a6] | W.P. Thurston, H.E. Winkelnkemper, "On the existence of contact forms" Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. , 52 (1975) pp. 345–347 MR0375366 Zbl 0312.53028 |
[a7] | H.E. Winkelnkemper, "Manifolds as open books" Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. , 79 (1973) pp. 45–51 MR0310912 Zbl 0269.57011 |
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