Open books supporting overtwisted contact structures and the Stallings twist

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/05930751MaRDI QIDQ996129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryosuke Yamamoto

Publication date 12 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608371

zbMATH Keywords

contact structureopen book decompositionStallings twist

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study open books (or open book decompositions) of a closed oriented 3-manifold which support overtwisted contact structures. We focus on a simple closed curve along which one can perform Stallings twist, called ``twisting loop. We show that the existence of a twisting loop on the fiber surface of an open book is equivalent up to positive stabilization to the existence of an overtwisted disk in the contact manifold supported by the open book. We also show a criterion for overtwistedness using a certain arc properly embedded in the fiber surface, which is an extension of Goodman's one.

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