Masaharu Ishikawa

  1. Compatible contact structures of fibered positively-twisted graph multilinks in the 3-sphere.

    Authors: Masaharu Ishikawa
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    We study compatible contact structures of fibered, positively-twisted graph
    multilinks in the 3-sphere and prove that the contact structure of such a
    multilink is tight if and only if the orientations of its link components are
    all consistent with or all opposite to the orientation of the fibers of the
    Seifert fibrations of that graph multilink. As a corollary, we show that the
    compatible contact structures of the Milnor fibrations of real analytic germs
    of the form (f\bar g,O) are always overtwisted.

  2. Legendrian framings for two-bridge links.

    Authors: Sebastian Baader, Masaharu Ishikawa
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    We define the Thurston-Bennequin polytope of a two-component link as the
    convex hull of all pairs of integers that arise as framings of a Legendrian
    representative. The main result of this paper is a description of the
    Thurston-Bennequin polytope for two-bridge links. As an application, we
    construct non-quasipositive surfaces in $\R^3$ all whose sub-annuli are
    quasipositive.

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