Transverse Surgery on Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds

Conway, James

doi:10.1090/tran/7611

Transverse Surgery on Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds
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Abstract:

We study the effect of surgery on transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds. In particular, we investigate the effect of such surgery on open books, the Heegaard Floer contact invariant, and tightness. One main aim of this paper is to show that in many contexts, transverse surgery is a more natural tool than surgery on Legendrian knots.

We reinterpret contact $(\pm 1)$-surgery on Legendrian knots as transverse surgery on transverse push-offs, allowing us to give simpler proofs of known results. We give the first result on the tightness of inadmissible transverse surgery (cf. contact $(+1)$-surgery) for contact manifolds with vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant. In particular, inadmissible transverse $r$-surgery on the connected binding of a genus $g$ open book that supports a tight contact structure preserves tightness if $r > 2g-1$.

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