English

Overtwisted discs in planar open books

Geometric Topology 2015-02-04 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Using open book foliations we show that an overtwisted disc in a planar open book can be put in a topologically nice position. As a corollary, we prove that a planar open book whose fractional Dehn twist coefficients grater than one for all the boundary components supports a tight contact structure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.3039,
  title  = {Overtwisted discs in planar open books},
  author = {Tetsuya Ito and Keiko Kawamuro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3039},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, 26 figures. Accepted by International Journal of Mathematics

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