#### Volume 19, issue 1 (2015)

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Ozsváth–Szabó invariants of contact surgeries

### Marco Golla

Geometry & Topology 19 (2015) 171–235
##### Abstract

We give new tightness criteria for positive surgeries along knots in the $3$–sphere, generalising results of Lisca and Stipsicz, and Sahamie. The main tools will be Honda, Kazez and Matić’s, and Ozsváth and Szabó’s Floer-theoretic contact invariants. We compute Ozsváth–Szabó contact invariant of positive contact surgeries along Legendrian knots in the $3$–sphere in terms of the classical invariants of the knot. We also combine a Legendrian cabling construction with contact surgeries to get results about rational contact surgeries.

##### Keywords
tight contact structures, Ozsváth–Szabó invariants
Primary: 57R17
Secondary: 57R57