Explicit horizontal open books on some Seifert fibered 3-manifolds (Q869678)

The paper is concerned with compatible open books on contact 3-manifolds, see [\textit{W. P. Thurston, H. E. Winkelnkemper}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 52, 345--347 (1975; Zbl 0312.53028)], and [\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)]. The author presents explicit constructions of horizontal open books for some Seifert fibered 3-manifolds. An open book on a Seifert fibered 3-manifold is called horizontal if its binding is a collection of some fibers and the interiors of its pages are positively transverse to the Seifert fibration. The main results of the paper are the following: Proposition 4 and 5: There exists an explicit horizontal open book on the Seifert fibered 3-manifold with invariants \((g,n; r_1,\dots,r_k),\) where \( n \leq 0 < - \frac{1}{n} \in \mathbb{N}, \) for \(1 \leq i \leq k.\) The contact structure compatible with this open book is Stein fillable. The constructed contact structure is horizontal, i.e. the contact planes are positively transverse to the fibres of the Seifert fibration. The author has represented these 3-manifolds as a plumbing of circle bundles. In the final part of the paper, he shows how to put such a plumbing into a standard form.