Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures

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Main Authors: Li, Zhenkun, Wan, Shunyu, Zhou, Hugo
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Published: 2025
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author Li, Zhenkun
Wan, Shunyu
Zhou, Hugo
author_facet Li, Zhenkun
Wan, Shunyu
Zhou, Hugo
contents For any knot $K$ in $S^3$ and any positive rational $r$, we show that smooth $(-r)$-surgery on $K$ always admits a tight contact structure. More specifically, the tightness is detected by the non-vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant.
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spellingShingle Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures
Li, Zhenkun
Wan, Shunyu
Zhou, Hugo
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
For any knot $K$ in $S^3$ and any positive rational $r$, we show that smooth $(-r)$-surgery on $K$ always admits a tight contact structure. More specifically, the tightness is detected by the non-vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant.
title Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures
topic Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05294