Contact monoids and Stein cobordisms

DOI10.4310/MRL.2012.V19.N1.A4zbMATH Open1312.57032MaRDI QIDQ2391583FDOQ2391583

Authors: John A. Baldwin 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose S is a compact surface with boundary, and let g be a diffeomorphism of S which fixes the boundary pointwise. We denote by (M_{S,g},xi_{S,g})$ the contact 3-manifold compatible with the open book (S,g). In this article, we construct a Stein cobordism from the contact connected sum (M_{S,h},xi_{S,h}) # (M_{S,g},xi_{S,g}) to (M_{S,hg},xi_{S,hg}), for any two boundary-fixing diffeomorphisms h and g. This cobordism accounts for the comultiplication map on Heegaard Floer homology discovered in an earlier paper by the author, and it illuminates several geometrically interesting monoids in the mapping class group of S. We derive some consequences for the fillability of contact manifolds obtained as cyclic branched covers of transverse knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2169

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zbMATH Keywords

cobordismmapping class groupmonoidHeegaard-Floer homologyfillabilitycomultiplication mapcontact connected sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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