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 . We prove an obstruction on the maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant of 3-component links to produce 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 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