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Contact Surgeries on the Legendrian Figure-Eight Knot

Geometric Topology 2016-10-14 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that all positive contact surgeries on every Legendrian figure-eight knot in (S3,ξstd)(S^3, \xi_{\rm{std}}) result in an overtwisted contact structure. The proof uses convex surface theory and invariants from Heegaard Floer homology.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03943,
  title  = {Contact Surgeries on the Legendrian Figure-Eight Knot},
  author = {James Conway},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03943},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures