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Dehn surgery, rational open books and knot Floer homology

  • Michigan State University
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

By recent results of Baker, Etnyre and Van Horn-Morris, a rational open book decomposition defines a compatible contact structure. We show that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant of such a contact structure can be computed in terms of the knot Floer homology of its (rationally null-homologous) binding. We then use this description of contact invariants, together with a formula for the knot Floer homology of the core of a surgery solid torus, to show that certain manifolds obtained by surgeries on bindings of open books carry tight contact structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1815-1856
Number of pages42
JournalAlgebraic and Geometric Topology
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

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