English

Contact surgery and supporting open books

Geometric Topology 2019-08-29 v4

Abstract

Let (M,ξ)(M,\xi) be a contact 3-manifold. We present two new algorithms, the first of which converts an open book (Σ,Φ)(\Sigma,\Phi) supporting (M,ξ)(M,\xi) with connected binding into a contact surgery diagram. The second turns a contact surgery diagram for (M,ξ)(M,\xi) into a supporting open book decomposition. These constructions lead to a refinement of a result of Ding-Geiges, which states that every such (M,ξ)(M,\xi) may be obtained by contact surgery from (S3,ξstd)(S^{3},\xi_{std}), as well as bounds on the support norm and genus of contact manifolds obtained by surgery in terms of classical link data. We then introduce Kirby moves called ribbon moves which use mapping class relations to modify contact surgery diagrams. Any two surgery diagrams of the same contact 3-manifold are related by a sequence of Legendrian isotopies and ribbon moves. As most of our results are computational in nature, a number of examples are analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4003,
  title  = {Contact surgery and supporting open books},
  author = {Russell Avdek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4003},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Version 4: 35 pages, 29 figures, references and acknowledgements added

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