Thurston's relative inequalities and Reeb components
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Thurston's relative inequalities and Reeb components
zbMATH Open document ID: 1223.57023
author: Noboru Ogawa
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 2011-08-04T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper under review considers the relation between different versions of Thurston's inequalities for surfaces in foliated 3-manifolds. Let \(M\) be a closed connected oriented smooth \(3\)-manifold and \({\mathcal F}\) a transversely oriented foliation of codimension 1 in \(M\). Let \(\tau{\mathcal F}\) be the tangent bundle to \({\mathcal F}\) and \(e(\tau{\mathcal F})\in H^2(M;\mathbb Z)\) its Euler class. If \(M\not=S^2\times S^1\) and \({\mathcal F}\) has no Reeb components, then \textit{W. P. Thurston} proved in [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 59, 99--130 (1986; Zbl 0585.57006)] that the absolute Thurston inequality \(|\langle e(\tau{\mathcal F}),[S]\rangle|\leq-\chi(S)\) holds for each compact oriented embedded surface \(S\). There are two relative versions of this inequality, which are both known to be true whenever \({\mathcal F}\) has no Reeb component. One is Thurston's relative \((+)\)-inequality: it considers oriented links \(\Gamma\) which are positively transverse to \({\mathcal F}\) and their Seifert surface \(S\) and states \(-<e(\tau{\mathcal F})_\Gamma,[S,\Gamma]>\leq-\chi(S)\) for the relative Euler class \(e(\tau{\mathcal{F}})_\Gamma\). The other one is Thurston's relative \((\pm)\)-inequality: it considers oriented transverse (not necessarily positively transverse) links and states \(|\langle e(\tau{\mathcal F})_\Gamma,[S,\Gamma]\rangle|\leq-\chi(S)\). The paper under review considers the logical relation between these 3 inequalities for foliations with Reeb components. \textit{Y. Mitsumatsu} had proved in [``Convergence of contact structures to foliations'', in: Walczak, P. (ed.) et al., Foliations 2005. Proceedings of the international conference, University of Łodź, Łodź, Poland, June 13--24, 2005. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific. 353--371 (2006; Zbl 1222.53090)] that for spinnable foliations the absolute inequality is implied by the relative \((+)\)-inequality. However the paper under review produces examples of foliations and knots such that the r…
reviewed by: Thilo Kuessner
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M27
zbMATH DE Number: 5935910
zbMATH Keywords: foliations
zbMATH Keywords: Thurston's inequalities
zbMATH Keywords: Reeb components
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.topol.2011.05.038
OpenAlex ID: W2020664138
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DOI: 10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.05.038
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