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Abstract
We show that all positive contact surgeries on every Legendrian figure-eight knot in ( S 3 , ξ std ) result in an overtwisted contact structure. The proof uses convex surface theory and invariants from Heegaard Floer homology.
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Publishes high quality papers on all aspects of symplectic geometry, with its deep roots in mathematics, going back to Huygens’ study of optics and to the Hamilton Jacobi formulation of mechanics. Nearly all branches of mathematics are treated, including many parts of dynamical systems, representation theory, combinatorics, packing problems, algebraic geometry, and differential topology.