arXiv · 0806.1729
On the transverse invariant for bindings of open books
Abstract
Consider a transverse knot which is the binding of an open book for the ambient contact manifold. In this paper, we show that the transverse invariants defined by Lisca, Ozsvath, Stipsicz, and Szabo (LOSS) are nonvanishing for such transverse knots. This is true regardless of whether or not the ambient contact structure is tight. We also prove a vanishing theorem for LOSS's Legendrian and transverse invariants. As a corollary, we show that if (T,π) is an open book with connected binding, then the complement of T has no Giroux torsion.
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David Shea Vela-Vick. 2010-05-19. On the transverse invariant for bindings of open books. https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1729
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