Distinctness conjecture for contact structures from Seifert surgery diagrams

Let MM) be a Seifert fibered 33--manifold described by Figure~, and let the diagram define contact structures by contact (±1)(\pm 1)--surgeries according to the stated algorithm. Assume the coefficients rir_i satisfy the conditions~. A contact structure is tight if it has no overtwisted disk.

Distinctness conjecture. All the tight contact structures defined by Figure~ and satisfying the assumptions~ are distinct up to isotopy.

The conjecture proposes that the surgery construction produces pairwise non-isotopic tight contact structures. The paper proves distinctness in the special family on M(g,2g;(α,1))M(g,2g; (\alpha,1)), while the general assertion is presented as a conjecture.

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Paolo Lisca and Andras I. Stipsicz, “Seifert fibered contact three-manifolds via surgery”, arXiv:math/0307341 (2004).

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