Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 499291

A three-manifold is a space that locally looks like Euclidean three-dimensional space

4 votes
1 answer
73 views

Finding an overtwisted disk in a contact surgery diagram

I've been reading through Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces by Ozbagci & Stipsicz and have been stuck on an exercise. Consider the following contact surgery diagram for $(S^3,\xi_{-1}) …
2 votes

Finding an overtwisted disk in a contact surgery diagram

I apologize for posting an answer to my own question so soon. I was shown an answer recently by a post-doc at my university. My approach above could not have found this solution. The Legendrian knot $ …
Hrhm's user avatar
  • 221
0 votes

slam-dunk or Kirby move

I've had trouble understanding the explanation in Gompf-Stipsicz for the surgery coefficient after slam-dunking. Here's another explanation. Let $K_2$ be a knot with integral surgery coefficient $n\in …
Hrhm's user avatar
  • 221