The purpose of this thesis is to establish links between the theory of laminations and the theory of contact structures, via branched surfaces. This will is motivated by the existence of links between tight contact structures and taut foliations.The main result is a sufficient condition for a branched surface B in a 3-dimensional manifold V to fully carry a lamination. It implies a sufficient condition for the lift of B in the universal cover of V to fully carry a lamination, which is also a necessary condition for this lamination to be essential. This result gives a piece of answer to a classical question of Gabai.We then introduce a notion of contact structure carried by a branched surface, which generalizes the one of Oertel-Swiatkowski....
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
We survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emp...
ABSTRACT. Given a foliation F of a closed 3-manifold and a Smale flow φ transverse to F, we associat...
The purpose of this thesis is to establish links between the theory of laminations and the theory of...
Le but de cette thèse est d'établir des liens entre la théorie des laminations et celle des structur...
This is a fully new version, whose main result has been corrected.We give a sufficient condition for...
We dene a laminar branched surface to be a branched surface satisfying the following conditions: (1)...
We use normal surface theory as adapted by Brittenham and Gabai to find a set of branched surfaces t...
In this thesis we study the relationship between branched covers, open book decompositions and conta...
We will discuss what is known about the construction of contact structures via branched covers, emph...
A b-contact structure on a b-manifold (M, Z) is a singular Jacobi structure on M satisfying a transv...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
We survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emp...
ABSTRACT. Given a foliation F of a closed 3-manifold and a Smale flow φ transverse to F, we associat...
The purpose of this thesis is to establish links between the theory of laminations and the theory of...
Le but de cette thèse est d'établir des liens entre la théorie des laminations et celle des structur...
This is a fully new version, whose main result has been corrected.We give a sufficient condition for...
We dene a laminar branched surface to be a branched surface satisfying the following conditions: (1)...
We use normal surface theory as adapted by Brittenham and Gabai to find a set of branched surfaces t...
In this thesis we study the relationship between branched covers, open book decompositions and conta...
We will discuss what is known about the construction of contact structures via branched covers, emph...
A b-contact structure on a b-manifold (M, Z) is a singular Jacobi structure on M satisfying a transv...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
This thesis is divided in two parts.The first part focuses on the study of the topology of the conta...
We survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emp...
ABSTRACT. Given a foliation F of a closed 3-manifold and a Smale flow φ transverse to F, we associat...