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Open book decompositions with page a four-punctured sphere

Geometric Topology 2026-01-21 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study contact structures supported by open book decompositions whose pages are four-punctured spheres. The paper is split into two parts. In the first part, we find infinitely many overtwisted, right-veering monodromies on the four-punctured sphere. This is done using the techniques developed by Ito-Kawamuro in the papers arXiv:1112.5874, arXiv:1310.6404. Although most of the monodromies that we show are overtwisted are pseudo-Anosov, we are also able to classify precisely which reducible monodromies on the four-punctured sphere are tight. In the second part of the paper, we reprove part of a result of Lekili arXiv:1008.3529 by classifying which reducible mondromies have non-zero Heegaard Floer invariant. This is done by using the bordered contact invariants of Min-Varvarezos arXiv:2410.05511.

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@article{arxiv.2601.11871,
  title  = {Open book decompositions with page a four-punctured sphere},
  author = {Harahm Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11871},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

76 pages, 75 figures, 2 tables, comments welcome!

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