Fintushel--Stern knot surgery symplecticity conjecture for torus Lefschetz fibrations

Suppose that X4X^4 is a closed 44--manifold admitting a Lefschetz fibration whose regular fibers are tori. Let TXT\subset X be a regular fiber of the fibration, and suppose that [T]0[T]\ne0 in H2(X;R)H_2(X;\mathbb R). Hence XX is symplectic. Let XKX_K be a manifold obtained by Fintushel--Stern knot surgery on TT using a knot KS3K\subset S^3. Fintushel--Stern knot surgery symplecticity conjecture. XKX_K has a symplectic structure if and only if KK 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 KK 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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