Classification of tight contact structures on surgeries on the figure-eight knot

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.1457zbMATH Open1471.57028arXiv1901.06066OpenAlexW3106480891MaRDI QIDQ2004531FDOQ2004531

Hyunki Min, James Conway

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two of the basic questions in contact topology are which manifolds admit tight contact structures, and on those that do, can we classify such structures. We present the first such classification on an infinite family of (mostly) hyperbolic 3-manifolds: surgeries on the figure-eight knot. We also determine which of the tight contact structures are symplectically fillable and which are universally tight.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06066

zbMATH Keywords

surgerycontact structurecontact geometryfigure-eight knottightfillability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33)

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