This article describes the following results which relate to each other; i) convergence of high dimensional contact structure to codimension one foliation with Reeb component, ii) relation between Nil-type and Sol-type contact submanifolds of S^5, iii) definition of convex Thurston-Bennequin inequality, and iv) generalization of Lutz twist via convex hypersurface theory. The other article concerning non-convex hypersurfaces is included as an appendix.
We study the Thurston-Bennequin number of complete and complete bipartite Legendrian graphs. We define a new invariant called the total Thurston-Bennequin number of the graph. We show that this invariant is determined by the Thurston-Bennequin numbers of 3-cycles for complete graphs and by the Thurston-Bennequin number of 4-cycles for complete bipartite graphs. We discuss the consequences of these results for K_4, K_5 and K_{3,3}.
We classify Legendrian knots of topological type $7_6$ having maximal Thurston--Bennequin number confirming the corresponding conjectures of Chongchitmate--Ng.
A flat plumbing basket is a surface consisting a disk and finitely many bands which are contained in distinct pages of the trivial open book decomposition of $\mathbf{S}^{3}$. In this paper, we construct a Legendrian link from a flat plumbing basket, and we describe a relation among the self-linking number, the Thurston-Bennequin number and the flat plumbing basket number of the link. As a corollary, we determine the flat plumbing basket numbers of torus links.
In this paper, we introduce a rational $τ$ invariant for rationally null-homologous knots in contact 3-manifolds with nontrivial Ozsváth-Szabó contact invariants. Such an invariant is an upper bound for the sum of rational Thurston-Bennequin invariant and the rational rotation number of the Legendrian representatives of the knot. In the special case of Floer simple knots in L-spaces, we can compute the rational $τ$ invariants by correction terms.
Generalised Thurston-Bennequin invariants for real algebraic surface singularities
实代数簇的Q-奇点的广义Thurston-Bennequin不变量被定义为奇点的实链环的同调上的链环形式。本文的主要目的是提出一种方法来计算连接形式的非常好的分辨率图的一个真正的正常单枝曲面奇点。对于这样的奇点，链接形式的值是奇点的实链接的Thurston-Bennequin数。作为单枝曲面奇点的一种特殊情况，研究了Brieskorn二重点x^m+y^n \pm z ^2 =0上的连接形式的行为.
We give a generalized Thurston--Bennequin-type inequality for links in $S^3$ using a Bauer--Furuta-type invariant for 4-manifolds with contact boundary. As a special case, we also give an adjunction inequality for smoothly embedded orientable surfaces with negative intersection in a closed oriented smooth 4-manifold whose non-equivariant Bauer--Furuta invariant is non-zero.
We give a method for constructing a Legendrian representative of a knot in $S^3$ which realizes its maximal Thurston-Bennequin number under a certain condition. The method utilizes Stein handle decompositions of $D^4$, and the resulting Legendrian representative is often very complicated (relative to the complexity of the topological knot type). As an application, we construct infinitely many knots in $S^3$ each of which yields a reducible 3-manifold by a Legendrian surgery in the standard tight contact structure. This disproves a conjecture of Lidman and Sivek.
For a 4-manifold represented by a framed knot in $S^3$, it has been well known that the 4-manifold admits a Stein structure if the framing is less than the maximal Thurston-Bennequin number of the knot. In this paper, we prove either the converse of this fact is false or there exists a compact contractible oriented smooth 4-manifold (with Stein fillable boundary) admitting no Stein structure. Note that an exotic smooth structure on $S^4$ exists if and only if there exists a compact contractible oriented smooth 4-manifold with $S^3$ boundary admitting no Stein structure.
We prove that a version of the Thurston-Bennequin inequality holds for Legendrian and transverse links in a rational homology contact 3-sphere $(M,ξ)$, whenever $ξ$ is tight. More specifically, we show that the self-linking number of a transverse link $T$ in $(M,ξ)$, such that the boundary of its tubular neighbourhood consists of incompressible tori, is bounded by the Thurston norm $||T||_T$ of $T$. A similar inequality is given for Legendrian links by using the notions of positive and negative transverse push-off. We apply this bound to compute the tau-invariant for every strongly quasi-posit…
Rigidity versus flexibility for tight confoliations
在\cite{confol} Y. Eliashberg和W. Thurston给出了紧confoliations的定义。给出了一个在$T^3$上的紧褶积$ξ$不满足Thurston-Bennequin不等式的例子.这是对\cite{confol}提出的一个问题的否定回答。虽然紧密的confoliation并不意味着Thurston-Bennequin不等式，但仍然可以证明包含紧密confoliation的平面域的同伦类的限制。Thurston-Bennequin不等式在紧聚生中的失败是由于过扭曲星的存在。超扭曲星是一种特殊的勒让德曲线，它将一个圆盘的边界限定为无数个小孔。我们证明了Thurston-Bennequin不等式适用于紧confoliations没有overtwisted明星和辛填充confoliations不承认overtwisted明星。
For any generic immersion of a Petersen graph into a plane, the number of crossing points between two edges of distance one is odd. The sum of the crossing numbers of all $5$-cycles is odd. The sum of the rotation numbers of all $5$-cycles is even. We show analogous results for $6$-cycles, $8$-cycles and $9$-cycles. For any Legendrian spatial embedding of a Petersen graph, there exists a $5$-cycle that is not an unknot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number, and the sum of all Thurston-Bennequin numbers of the cycles is $7$ times the sum of all Thurston-Bennequin numbers of the $5$-cycles. We …
All knots in $R^3$ possess Seifert surfaces, and so the classical Thurston-Bennequin and rotation (or Maslov) invariants for Legendrian knots in a contact structure on $R^3$ can be defined. The definitions extend easily to null-homologous knots in any $3$-manifold $M$ endowed with a contact structure $ξ$. We generalize the definition of Seifert surfaces and use them to define these invariants for all Legendrian knots, including those that are not null-homologous, in a contact structure on the $3$-torus $T^3$. We show how to compute the Thurston-Bennequin and rotation invariants in a tight orie…
The Thurston-Bennequin invariant provides one notion of self-linking for any homologically-trivial Legendrian curve in a contact three-manifold. Here we discuss related analytic notions of self-linking for Legendrian knots in Euclidean space. Our definition is based upon a reformulation of the elementary Gauss linking integral and is motivated by ideas from supersymmetric gauge theory. We recover the Thurston-Bennequin invariant as a special case.
Paires de structures de contact sur les variétés de dimension trois
本文引入了三维流形上正切触结构对的概念，推广了Eliashberg-Thurston和Mitsumatsu的定义.这样的一对产生局部可积平面场$λ$。证明了如果$λ$是唯一可积的，且两个结构都是紧的，则$λ$的积分叶理不包含任何核心曲线同调为零的Reeb分支.此外，环境流形携带Reebless叶理。我们还证明了一个稳定性定理“à la Reeb”的积极对紧切触结构。
We introduce a new Legendrian isotopy invariant for any closed orientable Legendrian surface $L$ embedded in a closed contact $5$-manifold $(M, ξ)$ which admits an "admissable" open book $(B, f)$ (supporting $ξ$) for $L$. We show that to any such $L$ and a fixed page $X$, one can assign an integer $M\mathcal{P}_{X}(L)$, called "Relative Maximal Page Crossing Number of $L$ with respect to $X$", which is invariant under Legendrian isotopies of $L$. We also show that one can extend this to a page-free invariant, i.e., one can assign an integer $M\mathcal{P}_{(B,f)}(L)$, called "Absolute Maximal P…
