Every Contact Manifolds can be given a Nonfillable Contact Structure

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNM115MaRDI QIDQ5439948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Niederkrüger, Otto van Koert

Publication date 30 January 2008

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702228

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldovertwisted contact structureplastikstufesymplectic filling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: Recently Francisco Presas Mata constructed the first examples of closed contact manifolds of dimension larger than 3 that contain a plastikstufe, and hence are non-fillable. Using contact surgery on his examples we create on every sphere S^{2n-1}, n>1, an exotic contact structure xi_- that also contains a plastikstufe. As a consequence, every closed contact manifold M (except S^1) can be converted into a contact manifold that is not (semi-positively) fillable by taking the connected sum of M with (S^{2n-1},xi_-).

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