We say a null-homologous knot in a -manifold has Property G, if the Thurston norm and fiberedness of the complement of is preserved under the zero surgery on . In this paper, we will show that, if the smooth -genus of (in a certain homology class) in , where is a rational homology sphere, is smaller than the Seifert genus of , then has Property G. When the smooth -genus is , can be taken to be any closed, oriented -manifold.
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Fillable contact structures from positive surgery
We consider the question of when the operation of contact surgery with positive surgery coefficient, along a knot in a contact 3-manifold , gives rise to a weakly fillable contact structure. We show that this happens if and only if itself is weakly fillable, and is isotopic to the boundary of a properly embedded symplectic disk inside a filling of . Moreover, if is a contact manifold arising from positive contact surgery along , then any filling of is symplectomorphic to the complement of a suitable neighborhood of such a disk in a filling of . 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.
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- PAR ID:
- 10597632
- 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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