The diffeotopy group of S1×S2 via contact topology

DOI10.1112/S0010437X09004606zbMATH Open1209.57021arXiv0903.1488MaRDI QIDQ3577322FDOQ3577322

Authors: Fan Ding, Hansjörg Geiges 

Publication date: 22 July 2010

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As shown by H. Gluck in 1962, the diffeotopy group of S^1 imes S^2 is isomorphic to Z_2 + Z_2 + Z_2. Here an alternative proof of this result is given, relying on contact topology. We then discuss two applications to contact topology: (i) it is shown that the fundamental group of the space of contact structures on S^1 imes S^2, based at the standard tight contact structure, is isomorphic to the integers; (ii) inspired by previous work of M. Fraser, an example is given of an integer family of Legendrian knots in S^1 imes S^2 # S^1 imes S^2 (with its standard tight contact structure) that can be distinguished with the help of contact surgery, but not by the classical invariants (topological knot type, Thurston-Bennequin invariant, and rotation number).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1488

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zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian knotcontact topologydiffeotopy group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

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