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Morse foliated open books and right-veering monodromies

Vera Vértesi and Joan E. Licata

Vol. 5 (2022), No. 1, 311–326
DOI: 10.2140/obs.2022.5.311
Abstract

Morse foliated open books were introduced by the authors (arXiv 2002.01752v1), along with abstract and embedded versions, as a tool for studying contact manifolds with boundary. This article illustrates the advantages of the Morse perspective. We use this to extend the definition of right-veering to foliated open books and we show that it plays a similar role in detecting overtwistedness as in other versions of open books.

Keywords
contact structure, partial open book, open book foliation, Morse function, monodromy, right-veering, tight, overtwisted
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 57K33
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Received: 19 February 2021
Revised: 27 October 2021
Accepted: 28 October 2021
Published: 26 October 2022
Authors
Vera Vértesi
Faculty of Mathematics
University of Vienna
1090 Vienna
Austria
Joan E. Licata
Mathematical Sciences Institute
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia