English

Taut foliations in surface bundles with multiple boundary components

Geometric Topology 2016-01-20 v3

Abstract

Let MM be a fibered 3-manifold with multiple boundary components. We show that the fiber structure of MM transforms to closely related transversely oriented taut foliations realizing all rational multislopes in some open neighborhood of the multislope of the fiber. Each such foliation extends to a taut foliation in the closed 3-manifold obtained by Dehn filling along its boundary multislope. The existence of these foliations implies that certain contact structures are weakly symplectically fillable.

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@article{arxiv.1211.3637,
  title  = {Taut foliations in surface bundles with multiple boundary components},
  author = {Tejas Kalelkar and Rachel Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3637},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 12 figures; Minor corrections made, corollary for contact structures included

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