The overtwistedness conjecture for positive contact surgery on Legendrian knots

Let LL be a null-homologous Legendrian knot with Thurston–Bennequin invariant tb(L)2tb(L)\leq -2, and let nn be a positive integer. Overtwistedness conjecture. If n<tb(L)n<|tb(L)|, then contact (+n)(+n)-surgery on LL is overtwisted. This conjecture seeks to remove the rotation-number bounds from the preceding overtwistedness results; the supplied source does not indicate whether it has been resolved.

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James Conway, “Transverse Surgery on Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds”, arXiv:1409.7077 (2016).

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