Naturality of the contact invariant in monopole Floer homology under strong symplectic cobordisms

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.1795MaRDI QIDQ784249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mariano Echeverria

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06564

zbMATH Keywords

contact invariantmonopole Floer homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Floer homology (57R58)

Abstract: The contact invariant is an element in the monopole Floer homology groups of an oriented closed three manifold canonically associated to a given contact structure. A non-vanishing contact invariant implies that the original contact structure is tight, so understanding its behavior under symplectic cobordisms is of interest if one wants to further exploit this property. By extending the gluing argument of Mrowka and Rollin to the case of a manifold with a cylindrical end, we will show that the contact invariant behaves naturally under a strong symplectic cobordism. As quick applications of the naturality property, we give alternative proofs for the vanishing of the contact invariant in the case of an overtwisted contact structure, its non-vanishing in the case of strongly fillable contact structures and its vanishing in the reduced part of the monopole Floer homology group in the case of a planar contact structure. We also prove that a strong filling of a contact manifold which is an L-space must be negative definite.

Review text

Let \(Y\) be a closed, oriented, connected \(3\)-manifold. To a contact structure \(\xi\) there is associated a Spin\(^c\)-structure \({\mathfrak s}_\xi\) and a contact invariant \(c(\xi)\in \widehat{HM}^*(Y,{\mathfrak s}_\xi)\cong \widehat{HM}_*(-Y,{\mathfrak s}_\xi)\) in monopole Floer homology. For a symplectic cobordism \(W\) between contact manifolds \((Y,\xi)\) and \((Y^\prime,\xi^\prime)\) one has a homomorphism \(\widehat{HM}_*(W^\dagger,{\mathfrak s}_W)\colon \widehat{HM}_*(-Y,{\mathfrak s}_\xi)\to \widehat{HM}_*(-Y^\prime,{\mathfrak s}_{\xi^\prime})\). A strong symplectic cobordism is a symplectic cobordism for which the symplectic structure in collar neighborhoods of the convex and concave boundaries is given by symplectizations of the corresponding contact structures. The paper under review proves that under this assumption \(\widehat{HM}_*(W^\dagger,{\mathfrak s}_W)\) sends \(c(\xi)\) to \(c(\xi^\prime)\). This had been conjectured for about ten years. As corollaries one gets new proofs of \(c(\xi)=0\) for overtwisted contact structures and \(c(\xi)\not=0\) for strongly fillable contact structures. It is also proved that a strong filling of a contact manifold which is an L-space must be negative definite.

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