Plane Fields Related to Vector Fields on 3-Manifolds

Clodoaldo Grotta Ragazzo

Dedicated to Jorge Sotomayor on his 60th birthday

This paper is a small collection of results about the topology of non-singular plane fields which are either transverse or tangent to nonsingular volume preserving vector fields on 3-manifolds. Emphasis is given to contact plane distributions and to restrictions of Hamiltonian vector fields to hypersurfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds.