Flat plumbing basket and contact structure
Geometric Topology
2021-12-03 v5
Abstract
A flat plumbing basket is a Seifert surface consisting of a disk and bands contained in distinct pages of the disk open book decomposition of the 3-sphere. In this paper, we examine close connections between flat plumbing baskets and the contact structure supported by the open book. As an application we give lower bounds for the flat plumbing basket numbers and determine the flat plumbing basket numbers for various knots and links, including the torus links.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.11363,
title = {Flat plumbing basket and contact structure},
author = {Tetsuya Ito and Keiji Tagami},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11363},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
15 pages, 8 figures, This is an expanded and improved version of the second author's preprint arXiv:1709.08837