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Abstract
A contact structure on a three manifoldM is a completely non-integrable tangent
two-plane distribution. A contact structure is called overtwisted if it contains an
embedded disk D such that is everywhere tangent to D along @D. Eliashberg [6]
showed that the topologically interesting case to study is tight contact structures. He did this by showing that the classes of overtwisted contact structures correspond to homotopy classes of two-plane distributions on M. The purpose of this work is to
classify tight contact structures on M = 2 I with a specied boundary condition.
This is done by applying cut and paste contact topological techniques developed by
Honda, Kazez and Matic [15, 18].