How to recognize a 4-ball when you see one

MaRDI QIDQ5747222zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges, Kai Zehmisch

Publication date 11 February 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1543

zbMATH Keywords

Cerf's theoremcontact 3-manifoldsdiffeomorphismsfillingholomorphic discsmoduli spaceReeb vector fieldsymplectic 4-manifoldsWeinstein conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We apply the method of filling with holomorphic discs to a 4-dimensional symplectic cobordism with the standard contact 3-sphere as a convex boundary component. We establish the following dichotomy: either the cobordism is diffeomorphic to a ball, or there is a periodic Reeb orbit of quantifiably short period in the concave boundary of the cobordism. This allows us to give a unified treatment of various results concerning Reeb dynamics on contact 3-manifolds, symplectic fillability, the topology of symplectic cobordisms, symplectic non-squeezing, and the non-existence of exact Lagrangian surfaces in standard symplectic 4-space.

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