Complex vs convex Morse functions and geodesic open books
Abstract
Suppose that is a closed and oriented surface equipped with a Riemannian metric. In the literature, there are three seemingly distinct constructions of open books on the unit (co)tangent bundle of , having complex, contact, and dynamical flavors, respectively. Each one of these constructions is based on either an admissible divide or an ordered Morse function on . We show that the resulting open books are pairwise isotopic provided that the ordered Morse function is adapted to the admissible divide on . Moreover, we observe that if has positive genus, then none of these open books are planar and furthermore, we determine the only cases when they have genus one pages.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.04814,
title = {Complex vs convex Morse functions and geodesic open books},
author = {Pierre Dehornoy and Burak Ozbagci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.04814},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Major revision. This is the final version, to appear in the International Journal of Mathematics