Non-fillability of overtwisted contact manifolds via polyfolds
Wolfgang Schmaltz, Stefan Suhr, Kai Zehmisch
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Wolfgang Schmaltz, Stefan Suhr, Kai Zehmisch
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We prove that any weakly symplectically fillable contact manifold is tight. Furthermore we verify the strong Weinstein conjecture for contact manifolds that appear as the concave boundary of a directed symplectic cobordism whose positive boundary satisfies the weak-filling condition and is overtwisted. Similar results are obtained in the presence of bordered Legendrian open books whose binding-complement has vanishing second Stiefel-Whitney class. The results are obtained via polyfolds.
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We prove that any weakly symplectically fillable contact manifold is tight. Furthermore we verify the strong Weinstein conjecture for contact manifolds that appear as the concave boundary of a directed symplectic cobordism whose positive boundary satisfies the weak-filling condition and is overtwisted. Similar results are obtained in the presence of bordered Legendrian open books whose binding-complement has vanishing second Stiefel-Whitney class. The results are obtained via polyfolds.
Key concepts: Cobordism, Symplectic geometry, Conjecture, Mathematics, Boundary (topology), Pure mathematics, Manifold (fluid mechanics), Complement (music)