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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
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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 type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Inventiones mathematicae | ||||
| Publisher: | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG | ||||
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| Place of Publication: | HEIDELBERG | ||||
| Volume: | 230 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 713-765 | ||||
| Date | 19 July 2022 | ||||
| Institutions | Mathematics | ||||
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| Keywords | WEINSTEIN CONJECTURE; CLASSIFICATION; PLASTIKSTUFE; MANIFOLDS; CURVES; DISK | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 510 Mathematics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-526560 | ||||
| Item ID | 52656 |
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