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Bowden, Jonathan ; Gironella, Fabio ; Moreno, Agustin

Bourgeois contact structures: Tightness, fillability and applications

Bowden, Jonathan, Gironella, Fabio and Moreno, Agustin (2022) Bourgeois contact structures: Tightness, fillability and applications. Inventiones mathematicae 230, pp. 713-765.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 26 Jul 2022 10:50
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.52656


Abstract

Given a contact structure on a manifold V together with a supporting open book decomposition, Bourgeois gave an explicit construction of a contact structure on V x T-2. We prove that all such structures are universally tight in dimension 5, independent of whether the original contact manifold is itself tight or overtwisted. In arbitrary dimensions, we provide obstructions to the existence of ...

Given a contact structure on a manifold V together with a supporting open book decomposition, Bourgeois gave an explicit construction of a contact structure on V x T-2. We prove that all such structures are universally tight in dimension 5, independent of whether the original contact manifold is itself tight or overtwisted. In arbitrary dimensions, we provide obstructions to the existence of strong symplectic fillings of Bourgeois manifolds. This gives a broad class of new examples of weakly but not strongly fillable contact 5-manifolds, as well as the first examples of weakly but not strongly fillable contact structures in all odd dimensions. These obstructions are particular instances of more general obstructions for S-1-invariant contact manifolds. We also obtain a classification result in arbitrary dimensions, namely that the unit cotangent bundle of the n-torus has a unique symplectically aspherical strong filling up to diffeomorphism.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleInventiones mathematicae
Publisher:SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication:HEIDELBERG
Volume:230
Page Range:pp. 713-765
Date19 July 2022
InstitutionsMathematics
Identification Number
ValueType
10.1007/s00222-022-01131-yDOI
KeywordsWEINSTEIN CONJECTURE; CLASSIFICATION; PLASTIKSTUFE; MANIFOLDS; CURVES; DISK
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 510 Mathematics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-526560
Item ID52656

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