Algebraic torsion in contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00039-011-0138-3zbMATH Open1248.53072arXiv1009.3262OpenAlexW3098472321MaRDI QIDQ659928FDOQ659928

Michael Hutchings, Janko Latschev, Chris Wendl

Publication date: 24 January 2012

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We extract a nonnegative integer-valued invariant, which we call the "order of algebraic torsion", from the Symplectic Field Theory of a closed contact manifold, and show that its finiteness gives obstructions to the existence of symplectic fillings and exact symplectic cobordisms. A contact manifold has algebraic torsion of order zero if and only if it is algebraically overtwisted (i.e. has trivial contact homology), and any contact 3-manifold with positive Giroux torsion has algebraic torsion of order one (though the converse is not true). We also construct examples for each nonnegative k of contact 3-manifolds that have algebraic torsion of order k but not k - 1, and derive consequences for contact surgeries on such manifolds. The appendix by Michael Hutchings gives an alternative proof of our cobordism obstructions in dimension three using a refinement of the contact invariant in Embedded Contact Homology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3262

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zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldembedded contact homologyholomorphic curvesymplectic fillingsymplectic field theorysymplectic cobordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Pseudoholomorphic curves (32Q65) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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