• Open Book Decompositions and Contact Surgeries 

      Yıldırım, Yasemin (Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2018)
      By Alexander it was shown that an open book decomposition can be found for each closed, oriented 3-manifold. In this thesis, the importance of open book decompositions in terms of contact 3-manifolds will be studied by ...
    • Torus Knots and Contact Surgeries 

      Saraç, İrem Özge (Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2018)
      A closed curve homeomorphic to the unit circle in a 3-manifold is called a knot. In particularly, a knot that can be drawn on a torus without intersecting itself is called a torus knot. In this thesis, we study torus knots ...