• Relative symplectic caps, 4-genus and fibered knots

• # Fulltext

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/pmsc/126/02/0261-0275

• # Keywords

Relative symplectic caps; 4-genus and fibered knots.

• # Abstract

We prove relative versions of the symplectic capping theorem and sufficiency of Giroux’s criterion for Stein fillability and use these to study the 4-genus of knots. More precisely, suppose we have a symplectic 4-manifold $X$ with convex boundary and a symplectic surface $\Sigma$ in $X$ such that $\delta\Sigma$ is a transverse knot in $\delta X$. In this paper, we prove that there is a closed symplectic 4-manifold $Y$ with a closed symplectic surface $S$ such that $(X, \Sigma)$ embeds into $(Y, S)$ symplectically. As a consequence we obtain a relative version of the symplectic Thom conjecture. We also prove a relative version of the sufficiency part of Giroux’s criterion for Stein fillability, namely, we show that a fibered knot whose mondoromy is a product of positive Dehn twists bounds a symplectic surface in a Stein filling. We use this to study 4-genus of fibered knots in $\mathbb S^3$. Further, we give a criterion for quasipositive fibered knots to be strongly quasipositive.

• # Author Affiliations

1. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
2. Department of Mathematics, RKM Vivekananda University, Belur, Howrah 711 202, India

• # Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences

Volume 130, 2020
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Posted on July 25, 2019