On properties of Bourgeois contact structures (Q2292407)

If \((V,\xi)\) is a contact manifold with a contact open book decomposition \((K,\vartheta)\), \(\alpha_V\) is a contact form for \(\xi\), and \(f=f_x+if_y:V\to\mathbb{C}\) is a function with \(\vartheta=f/|f|\) such that \(d(\alpha_V/|f|)\) defines an ideal Liouville structure on every page of the open book, then the kernel of the 1-form \(\alpha=\alpha_V+f_xd\varphi_1-f_yd\varphi_2\) on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) is called the Bourgeois contact structure associated to a representation \((\alpha_V,f)\) of the contact open book \((K,\vartheta)\) on \((V,\xi)\) and the standard orientation \(d\varphi_1\wedge d\varphi_2\) on \(\mathbb{T}^2\), where \((\varphi_1,\varphi_2)\) denotes the standard coordinates on \(\mathbb{T}^2\). In this paper, the authors study properties of the contact manifold \(V\) that are inherited and that are not by \(V\times \mathbb{T}^2\). Most of those properties are related to the fillability and tightness of the Bourgeois structures. First, the authors show two results for a closed contact manifold \((V,\xi)\). If \((V,\xi)\) is weakly filled by \((W,\omega)\), then independently of the open book decomposition used in the construction, the associated Bourgeois contact structure on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) is isotopic to a contact structure that can be weakly filled by \((W\times\mathbb{T}^2,\omega\oplus\text{vol}_{\mathbb{T}^2})\), and if \((V,\xi)\) admits a Weinstein filling that is a \(k\)-fold stabilization and \((K,\vartheta)\) is the canonical open book associated to such a subcritical filling, then the corresponding Bourgeois structure on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) is \((k-1)\)-subcritically Weinstein fillable. Next, it is shown that if \((V,\xi_+)\) and \((V,\xi_-)\) are closed contact manifolds supported by abstract Liouville open books that have the same page but inverse monodromy, then the two corresponding Bourgeois structures on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) are contactomorphic, and that there exist examples in every dimension of closed overtwisted contact manifolds \((V,\xi)\) for which at least one of the corresponding Bourgeois structures on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) is tight. If \((V,\Xi_V,\omega_\Xi)\) is an almost contact manifold, where \(V\) is an oriented manifold with a hyperplane field \(\Xi_V\) and \(\omega_\Xi\) is a symplectic structure on \(\Xi_V\), then an almost Stein filling \((W,J)\) of \((V,\Xi_V,\omega_\Xi)\) is an almost complex manifold such that \(V\) is the oriented boundary of \(W\), \(J\) restricts to \(\Xi_V\) and \(J_{|\Xi_V}\) is tamed by \(\Xi_V\), and \(W\) admits a handle decomposition with all handles of dimension no more than \(\frac12\dim W\). The authors show that if \((V,\Xi_V,\omega_\Xi)\) is an almost contact manifold, \(d\text{vol}\) is a volume form on \(\mathbb{T}^2\), and \((V\times\mathbb{T}^2,\Xi_V\oplus T\mathbb{T}^2,\omega_\Xi\oplus d\text{vol})\) admits an almost Stein filling, then \((V,\Xi_V,\omega_\Xi)\) also admits one. Finally, the authors prove that a closed contact manifold containing a weakly exact pre-Lagrangian \(P\) is not subcritically Weinstein fillable, and that if the dimension of the contact manifold is at least 5 and \(P\) is displaceable, then the contact manifold is not even Weinstein fillable. Also, if \((V,\xi)\) is a closed contact manifold and \((K,\vartheta)\) is a compatible open book that contains a closed Legendrian in one of its pages, then the corresponding Bourgeois structure on \(V\times\mathbb{T}^2\) is not subcritically Weinstein fillable.