Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures
Abstract
For any knot K in S3 and any positive rational r, we show that smooth (-r)-surgery on K always admits a tight contact structure. More specifically, the tightness is detected by the non-vanishing Heegaard Floer contact invariant.
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