On contact type hypersurfaces in 4-space

DOI10.1007/S00222-021-01083-9zbMATH Open1494.57028arXiv2008.02755OpenAlexW3214292537MaRDI QIDQ2118067FDOQ2118067

Bülent Tosun, Thomas E. Mark

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider constraints on the topology of closed 3-manifolds that can arise as hypersurfaces of contact type in standard symplectic $R^4$. Using an obstruction derived from Heegaard Floer homology we prove that no Brieskorn homology sphere admits a contact type embedding in $R^4$, a result that has bearing on conjectures of Gompf and Koll'ar. This implies in particular that no rationally convex domain in $C^2$ has boundary diffeomorphic to a Brieskorn sphere. We also give infinitely many examples of contact 3-manifolds that bound Stein domains but not symplectically convex ones; in particular we find Stein domains in $C^2$ that cannot be made Weinstein with respect to the ambient symplectic structure while preserving the contact structure on their boundaries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02755

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard Floer homologyBrieskorn spherescontact structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomial convexity, rational convexity, meromorphic convexity in several complex variables (32E20) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Symplectic structures in 4 dimensions (57K43)

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