Maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and reducible Legendrian surgery

DOI10.1112/S0010437X1600748XMaRDI QIDQ5360240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kouichi Yasui

Publication date 28 September 2017

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05615

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldcabling conjectureLegendrian knotLegendrian surgerymaximal Thurston-Bennequin numberStein manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We give a method for constructing a Legendrian representative of a knot in $S^3$ which realizes its maximal Thurston-Bennequin number under a certain condition. The method utilizes Stein handle decompositions of $D^4$, and the resulting Legendrian representative is often very complicated (relative to the complexity of the topological knot type). As an application, we construct infinitely many knots in $S^3$ each of which yields a reducible 3-manifold by a Legendrian surgery in the standard tight contact structure. This disproves a conjecture of Lidman and Sivek.

Recommendations

• Contact structures and reducible surgeries
• On the additivity of the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots.
• The contact homology of Legendrian knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant
• Nonexistence of Stein structures on 4-manifolds and maximal Thurston-Bennequin numbers
• Maximal Thurston-Bennequin number of two-bridge links

Cites work

• A Legendrian Thurston-Bennequin bound from Khovanov homology
• A product formula for the Seiberg-Witten invariants and the generalized Thom conjecture
• Bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin number from Floer homology
• Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work
• Contact structures and reducible surgeries
• Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4209004 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1057263 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1356915 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 950710 (Why is no real title available?)
• Invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in the standard contact space
• Khovanov homology and the slice genus
• Knot Floer homology and the four-ball genus
• Knot surgery and primeness
• L-space surgeries, genus bounds, and the cabling conjecture
• Nonexistence of Stein structures on 4-manifolds and maximal Thurston-Bennequin numbers
• On arc index and maximal Thurston-Bennequin number
• Only integral Dehn surgeries can yield reducible manifolds
• Ozsváth-Szabó invariants of contact surgeries
• RASMUSSEN INVARIANT, SLICE-BENNEQUIN INEQUALITY, AND SLICENESS OF KNOTS
• Stein \(4\)-manifolds with boundary and contact structures
• Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces
• The genus of embedded surfaces in the projective plane
• The symplectic Thom conjecture
• Tight contact structures and Seiberg-Witten invariants
• TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF STEIN MANIFOLDS OF DIMENSION >2
• Transverse knots and Khovanov homology

Cited in

(5)

• Contact surgeries on Legendrian figure-eight knots
• Contact structures and reducible surgeries
• Legendrian large cables and new phenomenon for nonuniformly thick knots
• Cabling Legendrian and transverse knots
• Corks, exotic 4-manifolds and knot concordance

This page was built for publication: Maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and reducible Legendrian surgery

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5360240)