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Title: Fillable contact structures from positive surgery
We consider the question of when the operation of contact surgery with positive surgery coefficient, along a knot K K in a contact 3-manifold Y Y , gives rise to a weakly fillable contact structure. We show that this happens if and only if Y Y itself is weakly fillable, and K K is isotopic to the boundary of a properly embedded symplectic disk inside a filling of Y Y . Moreover, if Y Y’ is a contact manifold arising from positive contact surgery along K K , then any filling of Y Y’ is symplectomorphic to the complement of a suitable neighborhood of such a disk in a filling of Y Y . Using this result we deduce several necessary conditions for a knot in the standard 3-sphere to admit a fillable positive surgery, such as quasipositivity and equality between the slice genus and the 4-dimensional clasp number, and we give a characterization of such knots in terms of a quasipositive braid expression. We show that knots arising as the closure of a positive braid always admit a fillable positive surgery, as do knots that have lens space surgeries, and suitable satellites of such knots. In fact the majority of quasipositive knots with up to 10 crossings admit a fillable positive surgery. On the other hand, in general, (strong) quasipositivity, positivity, or Lagrangian fillability need not imply a knot admits a fillable positive contact surgery.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2144363 2105525
PAR ID:
10597632
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Fillable Surgery-TAMS
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B
Volume:
11
Issue:
31
ISSN:
2330-0000
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1098 to 1137
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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