Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Eliashberg and Thurston proved that the tangent plane field of any C2 taut oriented foliation F≠S1×S2 can be C0 approximated by a pair of particularly nice smooth contact structures. Kazez and Roberts proved that the requirement that F be C2 can be replaced by the weaker condition that F have continuous tangent plane field. A very similar result was obtained independently by Bowden.