Algebraic overtwistedness conjecture for positive-braid rainbow closures

Let Λ\Lambda be a non-trivial Legendrian knot that is the Legendrian rainbow closure of a positive braid. For kN+k\in {\mathbb N}_+, let (S1/k3(Λ),ξ1/k(Λ))(S^{3}_{1/k}(\Lambda),\xi_{1/k}(\Lambda)) denote the contact 1/k1/k-surgery on Λ\Lambda. Positive-braid rainbow-closure conjecture. The contact manifold (S1/k3(Λ),ξ1/k(Λ))(S^{3}_{1/k}(\Lambda),\xi_{1/k}(\Lambda)) is algebraically overtwisted and tight for every kN+k\in {\mathbb N}_+. The preceding theorems establish this conclusion for non-trivial Legendrian positive torus knots with maximal Thurston–Bennequin invariant and for the stated families of positive braids; the conjecture proposes it for all non-trivial Legendrian rainbow closures of positive braids.

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Youlin Li and Zhengyi Zhou, “Algebraically overtwisted tight 3-manifolds from +1 surgeries”, arXiv:2403.19982 (2024).

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