A monopole invariant for families of contact structures
arXiv:2104.14638 · doi:10.1016/j.aim.2023.109483
Abstract
We use monopole Floer homology to study the topology of the space of contact structures on a 3-manifold. Our main tool is a generalisation of the Kronheimer--Mrowka--Ozsváth--Szabó contact invariant to an invariant for families of contact structures, and we establish foundational results that describe the interaction between this invariant and the module structure in monopole Floer homology. We apply these results in several examples of contact manifolds, such as the links of non-rational surface singularities, to deduce several applications. Namely, we are able to obstruct the existence of sections of a natural fibration over the 2-sphere whose total space is the space of contact structures on the 3-manifold, and from this we are able to detect the existence of exotic loops of contact structures on contact 3-manifolds with convex sphere boundary.
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