On the transverse invariant for bindings of open books
Symplectic Geometry
2010-05-20 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Consider a transverse knot which is the binding of an open book for the ambient contact manifold. In this paper, we show that the transverse invariants defined by Lisca, Ozsvath, Stipsicz, and Szabo (LOSS) are nonvanishing for such transverse knots. This is true regardless of whether or not the ambient contact structure is tight. We also prove a vanishing theorem for LOSS's Legendrian and transverse invariants. As a corollary, we show that if (T,\pi) is an open book with connected binding, then the complement of T has no Giroux torsion.
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@article{arxiv.0806.1729,
title = {On the transverse invariant for bindings of open books},
author = {David Shea Vela-Vick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1729},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
18 pages, 8 figures. The new version contains some minor updates and typo corrections