On Legendrian embeddings into open book decompositions

DOI10.4310/ARKIV.2019.V57.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2326501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Selman Akbulut, M. Firat Arikan

Publication date 8 October 2019

Published in Arkiv för Matematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07415

zbMATH Keywords

contactconvex symplecticLefschetz fibrationLiouvilleopen bookWeinstein

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We study Legendrian embeddings of a compact Legendrian submanifold $L$ sitting in a closed contact manifold $(M,xi)$ whose contact structure is supported by a (contact) open book $mathcalOB$ on $M$. We prove that if $mathcalOB$ has Weinstein pages, then there exist a contact structure $x{i}^{\prime }$ on $M$, isotopic to $xi$ and supported by $mathcalOB$, and a contactomorphism $f:(M,xi)o(M,x{i}^{\prime })$ such that the image $f(L)$ of any such submanifold can be Legendrian isotoped so that it becomes disjoint from the closure of a page of $mathcalOB$.

Review text

The main result of this paper is the following flexibility result: Let \(L\) be a compact Legendrian submanifold of a closed contact manifold \((M,\xi)\) of dimension \(2n+1\geq 3\) which admits an open book \(\mathcal{OB}\) supporting \(\xi\). If the pages of \(\mathcal{OB}\) are Weinstein, then there exists a contact structure \(\xi'\) compatible with \(\mathcal{OB}\) and a contactomorphism \(f\colon (M,\xi)\to (M,\xi')\) such that \(f(L)\) can be Legendrian isotoped so that it becomes disjoint from the closure of a page of \(\mathcal{OB}\). In the smooth category, given a compact \(n\)-dimensional submanifold \(L\) of a closed \((2n+1)\)-dimensional manifold admitting an open book \(\mathcal{OB}\), it is not possible, in general, to isotope \(L\) so that it becomes disjoint from the closure of a page of the open book. However, if the pages of \(\mathcal{OB}\) retract onto a finite \(n\)-dimensional \(CW\)-complex, a general position argument shows that this is possible. The above theorem is made possible by the fact that every Weinstein domain of dimension \(2n\) is homotopy equivalent to its core which is an \(n\)-dimensional finite \(CW\)-complex; see [\textit{K. Cieliebak} and \textit{Y. Eliashberg}, From Stein to Weinstein and back. Symplectic geometry of affine complex manifolds. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2012; Zbl 1262.32026)].

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