Null surgery on knots in L-spaces

Abstract: Let

K

be a knot in an L-space

Y

with a Dehn surgery to a surface bundle over

S^{1}

. We prove that

K

is rationally fibered, that is, the knot complement admits a fibration over

S^{1}

. As part of the proof, we show that if

K s u b s e t Y

has a Dehn surgery to

S^{1} i m e s S^{2}

, then

K

is rationally fibered. In the case that

K

admits some

S^{1} i m e s S^{2}

surgery,

K

is Floer simple, that is, the rank of

h a t H F K (Y, K)

is equal to the order of

H_{1} (Y)

. By combining the latter two facts, we deduce that the induced contact structure on the ambient manifold

Y

is tight. In a different direction, we show that if

K

is a knot in an L-space

Y

, then any Thurston norm minimizing rational Seifert surface for

K

extends to a Thurston norm minimizing surface in the manifold obtained by the null surgery on

K

(i.e., the unique surgery on

K

with

b_{1} > 0

).

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