Contact cuts

DOI10.1007/BF02772608MaRDI QIDQ5951480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugene Lerman

Publication date 4 November 2003

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002041

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldcontactomorphismovertwistedreductionsymplectic cut

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We describe a contact analog of the symplectic cut construction. As an application we show that the group of contactomorphisms for a particular overtwisted contact structure on the three sphere contains countably many nonconjugate two tori.

Review text

The author describes a contact analog of the symplectic cut construction introduced in [\textit{E. Lerman}, Math. Res. Lett. 2, 247-258 (1995; Zbl 0835.53034)]. This construction has the properties one would wish, for example (2.20) of the above mentioned paper for a contact manifold with a circle action preserving the contact form. Further, the symplectization of a (contact) cut is symplectomorphic to the corresponding (symplectic) cut of the symplectization of the contact manifold. As well there is a contact analog to symplectic gluing. The contact cuts are used to produce countably many non-conjugate 2-tori in the group of contactomorphisms of the (unique) overtwisted co-oriented contact structure on \(S^3\) which is homotopic to the standard contact structure as a 2-plane field.

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• Reducibility in Sasakian geometry
• Rigid constellations of closed Reeb orbits
• Transverse surgery on knots in contact 3-manifolds
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• Exotic symplectomorphisms and contact circle actions
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