Weak and strong fillability of higher dimensional contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00222-012-0412-5zbMATH Open1277.57026arXiv1111.6008OpenAlexW3098430887MaRDI QIDQ2377347FDOQ2377347

Authors: Patrick Massot, Klaus Niederkrüger, Chris Wendl 

Publication date: 28 June 2013

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

Abstract: For contact manifolds in dimension three, the notions of weak and strong symplectic fillability and tightness are all known to be inequivalent. We extend these facts to higher dimensions: in particular, we define a natural generalization of weak fillings and prove that it is indeed weaker (at least in dimension five),while also being obstructed by all known manifestations of "overtwistedness". We also find the first examples of contact manifolds in all dimensions that are not symplectically fillable but also cannot be called overtwisted in any reasonable sense. These depend on a higher-dimensional analogue of Giroux torsion, which we define via the existence in all dimensions of exact symplectic manifolds with disconnected contact boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6008

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zbMATH Keywords

contact structuressymplectic fillingsGiroux domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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