Fintushel--Stern knot surgery symplecticity conjecture for torus Lefschetz fibrations
Fintushel--Stern knot surgery symplecticity conjecture for torus Lefschetz fibrations
Suppose that is a closed --manifold admitting a Lefschetz fibration whose regular fibers are tori. Let be a regular fiber of the fibration, and suppose that in . Hence is symplectic. Let be a manifold obtained by Fintushel--Stern knot surgery on using a knot . Fintushel--Stern knot surgery symplecticity conjecture. has a symplectic structure if and only if is a fibered knot. This conjecture concerns when knot surgery preserves symplecticity; the supplied text gives no resolution beyond the known construction of a symplectic structure when is fibered and the Seiberg--Witten obstruction for knots with non-monic Alexander polynomial.
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Yi Ni, “Fintushel–Stern knot surgery in torus bundles”, arXiv:1510.07715 (2016).
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