Strongly fillable contact manifolds and J-holomorphic foliations

DOI10.1215/00127094-2010-001zbMATH Open1207.32022arXiv0806.3193OpenAlexW3105392960MaRDI QIDQ961476FDOQ961476

Authors: Chris Wendl 

Publication date: 30 March 2010

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that every strong symplectic filling of a planar contact manifold admits a symplectic Lefschetz fibration over the disk, and every strong filling of the 3-torus similarly admits a Lefschetz fibration over the annulus. It follows that strongly fillable planar contact structures are also Stein fillable, and all strong fillings of the 3-torus are equivalent up to symplectic deformation and blowup. These constructions result from a compactness theorem for punctured J-holomorphic curves that foliate a convex symplectic manifold. We use it also to show that the compactly supported symplectomorphism group on the cotangent bundle of the 2-torus is contractible, and to define an obstruction to strong fillability that yields a non-gauge-theoretic proof of Gay's recent nonfillability result for contact manifolds with positive Giroux torsion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3193

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zbMATH Keywords

open book decompositionsymplectic fillingGiroux torsionsymplectomorphism groupStein fillingpseudoholomorphic foliationstrong filling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pseudoholomorphic curves (32Q65) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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