Brieskorn manifolds, positive Sasakian geometry, and contact topology

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2015-0142zbMATH Open1356.53081arXiv1506.08672OpenAlexW2962996180MaRDI QIDQ312787FDOQ312787

Authors: Charles P. Boyer, Leonardo Macarini, Otto van Koert 

Publication date: 9 September 2016

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology, in particular its mean Euler characteristic, of the natural filling of links of Brieskorn-Pham polynomials, we prove the existence of infinitely many inequivalent contact structures on various manifolds, including in dimension 5 the k-fold connected sums of $S^{2}imes{S}^3$ and certain rational homology spheres. We then apply our result to show that on these manifolds the moduli space of classes of positive Sasakian structures has infinitely many components. We also apply our results to give lower bounds on the number of components of the moduli space of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on certain homotopy spheres. Finally a new family of Sasaki-Einstein metrics of real dimension 20 on $S^5$ is exhibited.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08672

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zbMATH Keywords

mean Euler characteristicBrieskorn manifoldsequivariant symplectic homologypositive Sasakian structureSasaki-Einstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

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