Topologically distinct Lagrangian and symplectic fillings

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Abstract: We construct infinitely many Legendrian links in the standard contact mathbbR3 with arbitrarily many topologically distinct Lagrangian fillings. The construction is used to find links in S3 that bound topologically distinct pieces of algebraic curves in B4subsetmathbbC2, is applied to find contact 3-manifolds with topologically distinct symplectic fillings, and is generalized to higher dimensions.


In some cases, the smooth topology of a symplectic manifold is defined by the contact topology of its boundary. For example, in [Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 151, 45--72 (1990; Zbl 0731.53036)], \textit{Y.~Eliashberg} proved that any symplectically aspherical filling of the standard contact \(S^3\) is diffeomorphic to \(B^4\). \textit{B. Chantraine} in [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 1, 63--85 (2010; Zbl 1203.57010)], showed that if \(L\) is an orientable Lagrangian filling of an oriented Legendrian link \(\Lambda\) in the boundary of a Stein surface, then \(\text{tb}(\Lambda)=-\chi(L)\), and if \(\Lambda\) is a knot, then the topology of a Lagrangian filling of \(\Lambda\) is completely determined by its Thurston-Bennequin invariant \(\text{tb}(\Lambda)\). Based on this result, in this paper the authors are interested if the topology of a Lagrangian filling of an oriented Legendrian link in \(S^3\) is completely determined by its Thurston-Bennequin invariant. The authors show that, in contrast to the the case of Legendrian knots, the topology is not defined by the tb-invariant, and they show that for every integer \(N>1\), there exists a Legendrian link \(\Lambda\subset(S^3,\xi_0)\) with \(p(N)\) non-homeomorphic exact orientable Lagrangian fillings, where \(p(N)\) denotes the number of partitions of \(N\). Also, they show that for every integer \(N>1\), there exists a link \(K\subset S^3\) with \(p(N)\) non-singular complex algebraic curves that intersect \(S^3\) transversally in \(K\) with the property that the intersections of the curves with \(B^4\) are pairwise non-homeomorphic. Finally, the authors extend the first result to higher dimensions and they show that for all integers \(n\), \(N>1\), there exists a connected Legendrian submanifold \(\Lambda\subset(S^{2n+1},\xi_0)\) with \(p(N)\) non-homeomorphic connected exact orientable Lagrangian fillings.











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