Notes on the contact Ozsváth-Szabó invariants (Q996162): Difference between revisions

According to a result of \textit{F. Ding} and \textit{H. Geiges} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 136, No. 3, 583--598 (2004; Zbl 1069.57015)], any closed contact three-manifold can be obtained by contact surgery on a Legendrian knot \(\mathbb{L}\) in the standard contact \((S^3,\xi _{\text{st}})\). Thus it is an intriguing question how to establish interesting properties of a contact structure from one of its surgery presentations. In the article under review the authors use the Ozsváth-Szabó invariants to prove some results related to it. One of them is: For a Legendrian knot \(K\subset (S^3,\xi_{\text{ st}})\), if for some orientation of \(K\), a front projection of \(K\) contains the configuration of Figure 1 of the article, with an odd number of cusps from the strand \(U\) to the strand \(U'\) as the knot is traversed in the direction of the orientation, then \((+1)\)-framed surgery on \(K\) yields an overtwisted contact manifold \((Y_K, \xi_K)\). In [Ann. Math. (2) 159, No. 3, 1027--1158 (2004; Zbl 1073.57009)], for closed oriented 3-manifolds \(Y\) with a Spin\(^c\) structure \(s\) the authors of the paper under review defined several Floer homology groups associated to \(Y\) via a Heegaard diagram for \(Y\) and the Lagrangian Floer homology construction. [\textit{J. Martinet}, Proc. Liverpool Singularities-Symp. II, Dept. Pure Math. Univ. Liverpool 1969-1970, 142-163 (1971; Zbl 0215.23003)] proved that every \(3\)-manifold admits a contact structure. \textit{Y. Eliashberg} [Invent. Math. 98, No. 3, 623--637 (1989; Zbl 0684.57012)] gave a classification for the overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds. For a closed, oriented three-manifold \(Y\) endowed with a cooriented contact structure \(\xi\), [\textit{E. Giroux}, Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians, ICM 2002, Beijing, China, August 20-28, 2002. Vol. II: Invited lectures. Beijing: Higher Education Press. 405-414 (2002; Zbl 1015.53049)] asserted the existence of an open book decomposition adapted to \(\xi\). For a contact structure on a closed, oriented three-manifold \(Y\), the paper under review uses Giroux's open book decomposition to describe an invariant that takes values in the three-manifold's Floer homology \(\widehat{HF}\), which vanishes for overwisted contact structures and is nonzero for Stein-fillable ones.