On the topology of fillings of contact manifolds and applications

DOI10.4171/CMH/248MaRDI QIDQ662440zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexandru Oancea, Claude Viterbo

Publication date 22 February 2012

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1278

zbMATH Keywords

homologycontact embeddingssubcritical Stein manifoldssymplectic fillingssymplectically aspherical manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to address the following question: given a contact manifold $(Sigma,xi)$, what can be said about the aspherical symplectic manifolds $(W,omega)$ bounded by $(Sigma,xi)$ ? We first extend a theorem of Eliashberg, Floer and McDuff to prove that under suitable assumptions the map from $H_{\ast }(Sigma)$ to $H_{\ast }(W)$ induced by inclusion is surjective. We then apply this method in the case of contact manifolds having a contact embedding in ${mathbbR}^{2n}$ or in a subcritical Stein manifold. We prove in many cases that the homology of the fillings is uniquely determined. Finally we use more recent methods of symplectic topology to prove that, if a contact hypersurface has a Stein subcritical filling, then all its weakly subcritical fillings have the same homology. A number of applications are given, from obstructions to the existence of Lagrangian or contact embeddings, to the exotic nature of some contact structures.

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