English

Null surgery on knots in L-spaces

Geometric Topology 2018-01-16 v2

Abstract

Let KK be a knot in an L-space YY with a Dehn surgery to a surface bundle over S1S^1. We prove that KK is rationally fibered, that is, the knot complement admits a fibration over S1S^1. As part of the proof, we show that if KYK\subset Y has a Dehn surgery to S1×S2S^1 \times S^2, then KK is rationally fibered. In the case that KK admits some S1×S2S^1 \times S^2 surgery, KK is Floer simple, that is, the rank of HFK^(Y,K)\hat{HFK}(Y,K) is equal to the order of H1(Y)H_1(Y). By combining the latter two facts, we deduce that the induced contact structure on the ambient manifold YY is tight. In a different direction, we show that if KK is a knot in an L-space YY, then any Thurston norm minimizing rational Seifert surface for KK extends to a Thurston norm minimizing surface in the manifold obtained by the null surgery on KK (i.e., the unique surgery on KK with b1>0b_1>0).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.07050,
  title  = {Null surgery on knots in L-spaces},
  author = {Yi Ni and Faramarz Vafaee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07050},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

25 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor revisions throughout. This is the version to appear in Transactions of the AMS

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