English

Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures

Geometric Topology 2025-10-09 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

For any knot KK in S3S^3 and any positive rational rr, we show that smooth (r)(-r)-surgery on KK 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!

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