Contactomorphism groups and Legendrian flexibility

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Authors Sylvain Courte, Patrick Massot

Publication date 21 March 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We explain a connection between the algebraic and geometric properties of groups of contact transformations, open book decompositions, and flexible Legendrian embeddings. The main result is that, if a closed contact manifold $(V,xi)$ has a supporting open book whose pages are flexible Weinstein manifolds, then the connected component $G$ of the identity in its automorphism group is a uniformly simple group: for every non-trivial element $g$, every other element is a product of at most $128(dimV+1)$ conjugates of $g^{pm1}$. In particular any conjugation invariant norm on this group is bounded. We also prove the later statement still holds for the universal cover of $G$.

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