Tightness is preserved by Legendrian surgery

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2015.182.2.8MaRDI QIDQ499093zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andy Wand

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1705

zbMATH Keywords

contact structurestightnessLegendrian surgeryStein cobordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: This paper describes a characterization of tightness of closed contact 3-manifolds in terms of supporting open book decompositions. The main result is that tightness of a closed contact 3-manifold is preserved under Legendrian surgery.

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