Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures
Geometric Topology
2025-10-09 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
For any knot in and any positive rational , we show that smooth -surgery on always admits a tight contact structure. More specifically, the tightness is detected by the non-vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant.
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@article{arxiv.2510.05294,
title = {Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures},
author = {Zhenkun Li and Shunyu Wan and Hugo Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05294},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
21 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome!