Distinctness conjecture for contact structures from Seifert surgery diagrams
Distinctness conjecture for contact structures from Seifert surgery diagrams
Let ) be a Seifert fibered --manifold described by Figure~, and let the diagram define contact structures by contact --surgeries according to the stated algorithm. Assume the coefficients 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 , 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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