Maximal contact and symplectic structures

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12149zbMATH Open1462.53074arXiv1810.11728OpenAlexW2898256597MaRDI QIDQ5108908FDOQ5108908

Oleg Lazarev

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a procedure for gluing Weinstein domains along Weinstein subdomains. By gluing along flexible subdomains, we show that any finite collection of high-dimensional Weinstein domains with the same topology are Weinstein subdomains of a `maximal' Weinstein domain also with the same topology. As an application, we produce exotic cotangent bundles containing many closed regular Lagrangians that are formally Lagrangian isotopic but not Hamiltonian isotopic and also give a new construction of exotic Weinstein structures on Euclidean space. We describe a similar construction in the contact setting which we use to produce `maximal' contact structures and extend several existing results in low-dimensional contact geometry to high-dimensions. We prove that all contact manifolds have symplectic caps, introduce a general procedure for producing contact manifolds with many Weinstein fillings, and give a new proof of the existence of codimension two contact embeddings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11728

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zbMATH Keywords

contact structureWeinstein cobordismWeinstein domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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