Weak symplectic fillings and holomorphic curves

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2155MaRDI QIDQ5388767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Niederkrüger, Chris Wendl

Publication date 20 April 2012

Published in Annales Scientifiques de l?tcole Normale Sup�rieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3923, http://smf4.emath.fr/Publications/AnnalesENS/4_44/html/ens_ann-sc_44_801-853.php

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologycontact manifoldsGiroux torsionholomorphic curvepseudoholomorphic curvesymplectic field theorysymplectic manifoldsweak symplectic fillings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We prove several results on weak symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds, including: (1) Every weak filling of any planar contact manifold can be deformed to a blow up of a Stein filling. (2) Contact manifolds that have fully separating planar torsion are not weakly fillable - this gives many new examples of contact manifolds without Giroux torsion that have no weak fillings. (3) Weak fillability is preserved under splicing of contact manifolds along symplectic pre-Lagrangian tori - this gives many new examples of contact manifolds without Giroux torsion that are weakly but not strongly fillable. We establish the obstructions to weak fillings via two parallel approaches using holomorphic curves. In the first approach, we generalize the original Gromov-Eliashberg "Bishop disk" argument to study the special case of Giroux torsion via a Bishop family of holomorphic annuli with boundary on an "anchored overtwisted annulus". The second approach uses punctured holomorphic curves, and is based on the observation that every weak filling can be deformed in a collar neighborhood so as to induce a stable Hamiltonian structure on the boundary. This also makes it possible to apply the techniques of Symplectic Field Theory, which we demonstrate in a test case by showing that the distinction between weakly and strongly fillable translates into contact homology as the distinction between twisted and untwisted coefficients.

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