The nonisolating contact invariant conjecture over the integers

Let KK be a dividing set, let c(K)c(K) be its contact invariant, and work with Z\mathbb{Z}-coefficients. A nonzero element is primitive if it is not a nontrivial integer multiple of another element. The dividing set KK is nonisolating when every region of the complement satisfies the nonisolating condition used in the paper.

Nonisolating contact invariant conjecture. Over Z\mathbb{Z}-coefficients, the following are equivalent:

  1. c(K)0c(K)\not=0;
  2. c(K)c(K) is primitive;
  3. KK is nonisolating.

This conjecture proposes that nonvanishing and primitivity of the contact invariant exactly characterize nonisolating dividing sets. The source presents it as an expected statement and gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Ko Honda, William H. Kazez and Gordana Matic, “Contact structures, sutured Floer homology and TQFT”, arXiv:0807.2431 (2008).

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