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Displaceability and the mean Euler characteristic (English)
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3 January 2013
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A contact manifold \((\Sigma, \xi)\) is said to admit an exact contact embedding if there is an embedding \(\iota: \Sigma \rightarrow V\) into an exact symplectic manifold \((V, \lambda)\) and a contact form \(\alpha\) for \((\Sigma, \xi)\) such that \(\alpha-\iota^*\lambda\) is exact and such that the image \(\iota(\Sigma)\) is bounding. An exact contact embedding is called displaceable if \(\iota(\Sigma)\) can be displaced from itself by a Hamiltonian isotopy. In this paper it is shown that the mean Euler characteristic of equivariant symplectic homology is an effective obstruction against the existence of displaceable exact contact embedding at least when \((\Sigma, \alpha)\) is index-definite. The mean Euler characteristic of Brieskorn manifolds \(\sigma(a_0, \cdots, a_n)\) with \(a_i\neq 1\) and pairwise relatively prime are calculated. As a consequence, these manifolds do not admit a displaceable exact contact embedding.
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mean Euler characteristic
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exact contact embedding
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displaceable
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Brieskorn manifold
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