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We describe a contact analog of the symplectic cut construction [L]. As an application we show that the group of contactomorphisms for certain overtwisted contact structures on lens spaces contains countably many non-conjugate two tori.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Eugene Lerman

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Supported by the NSF grant DMS-980305.

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Lerman, E. Contact cuts. Isr. J. Math. 124, 77–92 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02772608

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