Subcritical contact surgeries and the topology of symplectic fillings

DOI10.5802/JEP.31zbMATH Open1369.57029arXiv1408.1051OpenAlexW3102652797MaRDI QIDQ502553FDOQ502553

Authors: Paolo Ghiggini, Klaus Niederkrüger, Chris Wendl 

Publication date: 5 January 2017

Published in: Journal de l’École polytechnique — Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By a result of Eliashberg, every symplectic filling of a three-dimensional contact connected sum is obtained by performing a boundary connected sum on another symplectic filling. We prove a partial generalization of this result for subcritical contact surgeries in higher dimensions: given any contact manifold that arises from another contact manifold by subcritical surgery, its belt sphere is null-bordant in the oriented bordism group $OmegaS{O}^{\ast }(W)$ of any symplectically aspherical filling $W$, and in dimension five, it will even be nullhomotopic. More generally, if the filling is not aspherical but is semipositive, then the belt sphere will be trivial in $H^{\ast }(W)$. Using the same methods, we show that the contact connected sum decomposition for tight contact structures in dimension three does not extend to higher dimensions: in particular, we exhibit connected sums of manifolds of dimension at least five with Stein fillable contact structures that do not arise as contact connected sums. The proofs are based on holomorphic disk-filling techniques, with families of Legendrian open books (so-called "Lobs") as boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1051

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zbMATH Keywords

holomorphic diskssymplectic fillingcontact surgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pseudoholomorphic curves (32Q65) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

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