English

Flat plumbing basket, self-linking number and Thurston-Bennequin number

Geometric Topology 2017-11-02 v2

Abstract

A flat plumbing basket is a surface consisting a disk and finitely many bands which are contained in distinct pages of the trivial open book decomposition of S3\mathbf{S}^{3}. In this paper, we construct a Legendrian link from a flat plumbing basket, and we describe a relation among the self-linking number, the Thurston-Bennequin number and the flat plumbing basket number of the link. As a corollary, we determine the flat plumbing basket numbers of torus links.

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@article{arxiv.1709.08837,
  title  = {Flat plumbing basket, self-linking number and Thurston-Bennequin number},
  author = {Keiji Tagami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08837},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages, 15 figures, 1 table, comments are added at the first page, this is the first draft of arXiv:1710.11363