Abstract
We study open books on three manifolds which are compatible with an overtwisted contact structure. We show that the existence of certain arcs, called sobering arcs, is a sufficient condition for an open book to be overtwisted, and is necessary up to stabilization by positive Hopf-bands. Using these techniques we prove that some open books arising as the boundary of symplectic configurations are overtwisted, answering a question of Gay.
Citation
Noah Goodman. "Overtwisted open books from sobering arcs." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 5 (3) 1173 - 1195, 2005. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2005.5.1173
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