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arxiv: math/0401338 · v1 · submitted 2004-01-24 · 🧮 math.SG · math.GT

Lutz twist and contact surgery

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For any knot T transverse to a given contact structure on a 3-manifold, we exhibit a Legendrian two-component link such that T equals the transverse push-off of one of the link components and contact (+1)-surgery on the link has the same effect as a Lutz twist along T.

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