Null surgery on knots in L-spaces
Abstract
Let be a knot in an L-space with a Dehn surgery to a surface bundle over . We prove that is rationally fibered, that is, the knot complement admits a fibration over . As part of the proof, we show that if has a Dehn surgery to , then is rationally fibered. In the case that admits some surgery, is Floer simple, that is, the rank of is equal to the order of . By combining the latter two facts, we deduce that the induced contact structure on the ambient manifold is tight. In a different direction, we show that if is a knot in an L-space , then any Thurston norm minimizing rational Seifert surface for extends to a Thurston norm minimizing surface in the manifold obtained by the null surgery on (i.e., the unique surgery on with ).
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.07050,
title = {Null surgery on knots in L-spaces},
author = {Yi Ni and Faramarz Vafaee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07050},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
25 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor revisions throughout. This is the version to appear in Transactions of the AMS