Contact Surgeries on the Legendrian Figure-Eight Knot
Abstract
We show that all positive contact surgeries on every Legendrian figure-eight knot in (S3, std) result in an overtwisted contact structure. The proof uses convex surface theory and invariants from Heegaard Floer homology.
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