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Contact Surgery Numbers of the 3-torus

Symplectic Geometry 2026-07-28 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study contact surgery numbers for contact structures on the 3-torus. We show that all contact structures obtained via contact surgery along a Legendrian Borromean ring are overtwisted, and that this construction yields infinitely many pairwise non-contactomorphic contact structures on T3\mathbb{T}^3. We prove an obstruction on the maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant of 3-component links to produce T3\mathbb{T}^3 by Dehn surgery. On a side note, using Legendrian surgery and the ruling invariant, we show that the total symplectic homology of Stein fillings of (T3,ξ1)(\mathbb{T}^3, \xi_1) is non-zero.

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@article{arxiv.2607.25772,
  title  = {Contact Surgery Numbers of the 3-torus},
  author = {Prerak Deep and Monika Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.25772},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 Pages, 3 figures, 1 Table. Comments are welcome