Contact structures on plumbed 3-manifolds

DOI10.1215/21562261-2642395MaRDI QIDQ2017068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Çağrı Karakurt

Publication date 25 June 2014

Published in Kyoto Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3965, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.kjm/1401741279

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard Floer homologynegative definite plumbed 3-manifoldsOzsváth-Szabó contact invariantplanar open book

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Floer homology (57R58) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that the Ozsv'ath-Szab'o contact invariant $c^{+}(xi)inH{F}^{+}(-Y)$ of a contact 3-manifold $(Y,xi)$ can be calculated combinatorially if $Y$ is the boundary of a certain type of plumbing $X$, and $xi$ is induced by a Stein structure on $X$. Our technique uses an algorithm of Ozsv'ath and Szab'o to determine the Heegaard-Floer homology of such 3-manifolds. We discuss two important applications of this technique in contact topology. First, we show that it simplifies the calculation of the Ozsv'ath-Stipsicz-Szab'o obstruction to admitting a planar open book. Then we define a numerical invariant of contact manifolds that respects a partial ordering induced by Stein cobordisms. We do a sample calculation showing that the invariant can get infinitely many distinct values.

Review text

\textit{P. Ozsváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó} established a purely combinatorical algorithm to calculate the Heegaard Floer homology for contact 3-manifolds arising from a negative definite plumbing with at most one bad vertex in [Geom. Topol. 7, 185--224 (2003; Zbl 1130.57302)]. It is natural to ask which class the contact invariant lies in. The author reinterprets a result of \textit{O. Plamenevskaya} [Math. Res. Lett. 11, No. 4, 547--561 (2004; Zbl 1064.57031)] for this type of contact 3-manifolds and finds that the contact invariant is the dual of the first Chern class for an almost complex negative definite plumbing. Here, the duality was defined in Ozsváth and Szabó's paper. Combining this interpretation and a result of \textit{P. Ozsváth, A. Stipsicz} and \textit{Z. Szabó} in [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2005, No. 54, 3385--3401 (2005; Zbl 1092.57014)] about a property of the contact invariant for planar open books, an obstruction to planar open books for this type of contact 3-manifolds is obtained. As a result, the author finds some new contact 3-manifolds that do not admit a planar open book.

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