Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and tight contact three-manifolds, III
Abstract
We characterize L-spaces which are Seifert fibered over the 2-sphere in terms of taut foliations, transverse foliations and transverse contact structures. We give a sufficient condition for certain contact Seifert fibered 3-manifolds with e_0=-1 to have nonzero contact Ozsvath--Szabo invariants. This yields an algorithm for deciding whether a given small Seifert fibered L-space carries a contact structure with nonvanishing contact Ozsvath--Szabo invariant. As an application, we prove the existence of tight contact structures on some 3-manifolds obtained by integral surgery along a positive torus knot in the 3-sphere. Finally, we prove planarity of every contact structure on small Seifert fibered L-spaces with e_0 bigger than or equal to -1, and we discuss some consequences.
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@article{arxiv.math/0505493,
title = {Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and tight contact three-manifolds, III},
author = {Paolo Lisca and Andras I. Stipsicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0505493},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
30 pages, 7 figures; some results improved, new results on planar contact structures added