A class of non-fillable contact structures

DOI10.2140/GT.2007.11.2203zbMATH Open1132.57023arXivmath/0611390OpenAlexW2056708132MaRDI QIDQ2464842FDOQ2464842

Francisco Presas

Publication date: 17 December 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A geometric obstruction, the so called "plastikstufe", for a contact structure to not being fillable has been found by K. Niederkruger. This generalizes somehow the concept of overtwisted structure to dimensions higher than 3. This paper elaborates on the theory showing a big number of closed contact manifolds with a "plastikstufe". They are the first examples of non-fillable contact closed high-dimensional manifolds. In particular we show that $S^{3}imespro{d}_{j}Sigm{a}_j$, for $g(Sigm{a}_j)geq2$, possesses this kind of contact structure and so any connected sum with those manifolds also does it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611390

zbMATH Keywords

contact Hamiltoniancontact manifoldfillable contact structurecontact connectionovertwisted structurePS-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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