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ON OVERTWISTED CONTACT SURGERIES

Part of: Low-dimensional topology Differential topology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2018

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SINEM ONARAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe-Ankara, Turkey email sonaran@hacettepe.edu.tr
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Abstract

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In this paper, we obtain a new result for overtwisted contact $(+1/n)$-surgery. We also give a counterexample to a conjecture by James Conway on overtwistedness of manifolds obtained by contact surgery.

Keywords

contact structurecontact surgeryLegendrian knot

MSC classification

Primary: 57M25: Knots and links in $S^3$
Secondary: 57R65: Surgery and handlebodies
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , August 2018 , pp. 144 - 148
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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