Transverse surgery on knots in contact 3-manifolds

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7611MaRDI QIDQ4967304zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Conway

Publication date 3 July 2019

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7077

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldsopen book decompositiontight contact structurestransverse knottransverse surgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Knot theory (57K10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We study the effect of surgery on transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds. In particular, we investigate the effect of such surgery on open books, the Heegaard Floer contact invariant, and tightness. The overarching theme of this paper is to show that in many contexts, surgery on transverse knots is more natural than surgery on Legendrian knots. Besides reinterpreting surgery on Legendrian knots in terms of transverse knots, our main results on are in two complementary directions: conditions under which inadmissible transverse surgery ( extit{cf.@} positive contact surgery on Legendrian knots) preserves tightness, and conditions under which it creates overtwistedness. In the first direction, we give the first result on the tightness of inadmissible transverse surgery for contact manifolds with vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant. In particular, inadmissible transverse surgery on the connected binding of a genus $g$ open book that supports a tight contact structure preserves tightness if the surgery coefficient is greater than $2g-1$. In the second direction, along with more general statements, we deduce a partial generalisation to a result of Lisca and Stipsicz: when $L$ is a Legendrian knot with $tb(L)leq-2$, and $|rot(L)|geq2g(L)+tb(L)$, then contact $(+1)$-surgery on $L$ is overtwisted.

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