Planar open book decompositions and contact structures
IMRN 2004 (2004), no. 79, 4255-4267.

In this note we observe that while all overtwisted contact structures on compact 3--manifolds are supported by planar open book decompositions, not all contact structures are. This has relevance to the Weinstein conjecture [1] and invariants of contact structures.

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