Non-loose negative torus knots

DOI10.4171/QT/169arXiv2001.07681MaRDI QIDQ6333265

Irena Matkovič

Publication date: 21 January 2020

Abstract: We study Legendrian and transverse realizations of the negative torus knots $T_{(p,-q)}$ in all contact structures on the $3$-sphere. We give a complete classification of the strongly non-loose transverse realizations and the strongly non-loose Legendrian realizations with the Thurston-Bennequin invariant smaller than $-pq$. Additionally, we show that the strongly non-loose transverse realizations $T$ are classified by their non-zero invariants $mathfrakT(T)$ in the minus version of the knot Floer homology. However, not all the elements of $HF{K}^{-}(T_{(p,q)})$ can be realized. Along the way, we relate our Legendrian realizations to the tight contact structures on the Legendrian surgeries along them. Specifically, we realize all tight structures on the lens spaces $L(pq+1,p^2)$ as a single Legendrian surgery on a Legendrian $T_{(p,-q)}$, and we relate transverse realizations in overtwisted structures to the non-fillable tight structures on the large negative surgeries along the underlying knots.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18)

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