Four-dimensional symplectic cobordisms containing three-handles

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.1749zbMATH Open1129.53061arXivmath/0606402OpenAlexW4237552291MaRDI QIDQ860170FDOQ860170

Authors: David Gay 

Publication date: 23 January 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct four-dimensional symplectic cobordisms between contact three-manifolds generalizing an example of Eliashberg. One key feature is that any handlebody decomposition of one of these cobordisms must involve three-handles. The other key feature is that these cobordisms contain chains of symplectically embedded two-spheres of square zero. This, together with standard gauge theory, is used to show that any contact three-manifold of non-zero torsion (in the sense of Giroux) cannot be strongly symplectically fillable. John Etnyre pointed out to the author that the same argument together with compactness results for pseudo-holomorphic curves implies that any contact three-manifold of non-zero torsion satisfies the Weinstein conjecture. We also get examples of weakly symplectically fillable contact three-manifolds which are (strongly) symplectically cobordant to overtwisted contact three-manifolds, shedding new light on the structure of the set of contact three-manifolds equipped with the strong symplectic cobordism partial order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606402

Recommendations

• Symplectic cobordism in small dimensions and a series of elements of order four
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 66507
• On 4-dimensional s-cobordisms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2084963
• Symplectic foliations in four-manifolds
• On 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies and 3-manifolds
• On Four-Dimensional h-Cobordism
• Symplectic four-manifolds and projective surfaces
• 4-fold symmetric quandle invariants of 3-manifolds
• Four-dimensional Haken cobordism theory

zbMATH Keywords

moment maptorsion3-manifoldcontact structure4-manifoldWeinstein conjectureovertwistedsymplectic cobordism3-handlefillabletoric fibrationtoroidal manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Cites Work

• Pseudo holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds
• Compactness results in symplectic field theory
• Three-dimensional contact structures and bifurcations of foliations of surfaces
• Classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds
• TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF STEIN MANIFOLDS OF DIMENSION >2
• Contact surgery and symplectic handlebodies
• On symplectic fillings
• A few remarks about symplectic filling
• The Seiberg-Witten invariants and symplectic forms
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Simple singularities and topology of symplectically filling 4-manifold
• The Structure of Rational and Ruled Symplectic 4-Manifolds
• An infinity of tight contact structures on an infinity of manifolds
• Ozsváth-Szabó invariants and fillability of contact structures
• Contact geometry
• Symplectic fillability of tight contact structures on torus bundles
• On symplectic cobordisms
• Contact homology of toroidal manifolds
• Une structure de contact, même tendue, est plus ou moins tordue
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the geography of Stein fillings of certain 3-manifolds
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Contact Ozsváth-Szabó invariants and Giroux torsion
• Infinitely many tight contact structures on toroidal manifolds
• Explicit concave fillings of contact three-manifolds

Cited In (30)

• Tight small Seifert fibered manifolds with \(e_0= -2\)
• Contact round surgery and Lutz twists
• On nonseparating contact hypersurfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds
• Symplectic geometry of Anosov flows in dimension 3 and bi-contact topology
• Strong symplectic fillability of contact torus bundles
• Weak and strong fillability of higher dimensional contact manifolds
• Contact structures on plumbed 3-manifolds
• Contact Ozsváth-Szabó invariants and Giroux torsion
• Sutured TQFT, torsion and tori
• Filtering the Heegaard Floer contact invariant
• Canonical contact structures on some singularity links
• Elliptic open books on torus bundles over the circle
• Symplectic hats
• Admissible transverse surgery does not preserve tightness
• The Seiberg-Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture
• Strongly fillable contact manifolds and \(J\)-holomorphic foliations
• Contact round surgery and symplectic round handlebodies
• Open books and exact symplectic cobordisms
• Non-exact symplectic cobordisms between contact 3-manifolds
• Making cobordisms symplectic
• On Symplectic Caps
• On Stein fillings of contact torus bundles
• A hierarchy of local symplectic filling obstructions for contact 3-manifolds
• On symplectic cobordisms
• Exactly fillable contact structures without Stein fillings
• Calculation of contact and symplectic cobordism groups
• Algebraic torsion in contact manifolds
• Contact structures on product five-manifolds and fibre sums along circles
• Orbit equivalences of \(\mathbb{R}\)-covered Anosov flows and hyperbolic-like actions on the line. With an appendix written jointly with Jonathan Bowden
• How to recognize a 4-ball when you see one

This page was built for publication: Four-dimensional symplectic cobordisms containing three-handles

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q860170)