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On Contact Round Surgeries on $(\mathbb{S}^3,\xi_{st})$ and Their Diagrams

Symplectic Geometry 2025-12-29 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We introduce the notion of contact round surgery of index 11 on Legendrian knots in a general contact 3-manifold. It generalizes the notion of contact round surgery of index 1 on Legendrian knots introduced by Adachi. In (S3,ξst)\left(\mathbb{S}^3, \xi_{st}\right), we introduce the notion of contact round surgery of index 2 on a Legendrian knot and realize Adachi's contact round 2-surgery on a convex torus as a contact round surgery of index 22 on a Legendrian knot in (\s3,ξst)\left(\s^3, \xi_{st}\right). We associate surgery diagrams to contact round surgeries of indices 1 and 2 on Legendrian knots in (S3,ξst)\left(\mathbb{S}^3, \xi_{st}\right). With this set-up, we show that every closed connected contact 3-manifold can be obtained by performing a sequence of contact round surgeries on some Legendrian link in (S3,ξst)\left(\mathbb{S}^3, \xi_{st}\right), thus obtaining a contact round surgery diagram for each contact 3-manifold. This is analogous to the result of Ding-Geiges for contact Dehn surgeries. We also discuss a bridge between certain pairs of contact round surgery diagrams of indices 1 and 2, and contact (±1)(\pm1)-surgery diagrams. We use this bridge to establish the result mentioned above. In the end, we derive a corollary that gives sufficient conditions on contact round surgeries to produce symplectically fillable manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2504.06074,
  title  = {On Contact Round Surgeries on $(\mathbb{S}^3,\xi_{st})$ and Their Diagrams},
  author = {Prerak Deep and Dheeraj Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06074},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages, 9 Figures, Published