Non-exact symplectic cobordisms between contact 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1375124611zbMATH Open1278.57037arXiv1008.2456OpenAlexW2963064258WikidataQ115169176 ScholiaQ115169176MaRDI QIDQ366953FDOQ366953

Authors: Chris Wendl 

Publication date: 25 September 2013

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the pre-order defined on the category of contact manifolds by arbitrary symplectic cobordisms is considerably less rigid than its counterparts for exact or Stein cobordisms: in particular, we exhibit large new classes of contact 3-manifolds which are symplectically cobordant to something overtwisted, or to the tight 3-sphere, or which admit symplectic caps containing symplectically embedded spheres with vanishing self-intersection. These constructions imply new and simplified proofs of several recent results involving fillability, planarity and non-separating contact type embeddings. The cobordisms are built from generalized symplectic handles which have cores that are arbitrary symplectic surfaces with boundary and co-cores that are symplectic disks or annuli; these can be attached to contact 3-manifolds along sufficiently large neighborhoods of transverse links or pre-Lagrangian tori. We also sketch a construction of J-holomorphic foliations in these cobordisms and formulate a conjecture regarding maps induced on Embedded Contact Homology with twisted coefficients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2456

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zbMATH Keywords

contact structuressymplectic cobordisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

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