Fan Ding, Hansjörg Geiges
We prove the existence of exotic but homotopically trivial contact structures on spheres of dimension 8k-1. Together with previous results of Eliashberg and the second author this establishes the existence of such structures on all odd-dimensional spheres (of dimension at least 3).
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Properties of contact toric structures and concave boundaries of linear plumbings
研究具有凹接触边界的球面上辛圆盘束的线性拼接，用复曲面几何工具确定接触结构紧或过度扭曲情况，开发工具包计算线性拼接凹边界的ECH代数挠率和接触不变量。
We define a new 4-dimensional symplectic cut and paste operation which is analogous to Fintushel and Stern's rational blow-down. We use this operation to produce multiple constructions of symplectic smoothly exotic complex projective space blown-up eight times, seven times, and six times. We also show how this operation can be used in conjunction with knot surgery to construct an infinite family of minimal exotic smooth structures on the complex projective space blown-up seven times.
We show that on any closed contact manifold of dimension greater than 1 a contact structure with vanishing contact homology can be constructed. The basic idea for the construction comes from Giroux. We use a special open book decomposition for spheres. The page is the cotangent bundle of a sphere and the monodromy is given by a left-handed Dehn twist. In the resulting contact manifold we exhibit a closed Reeb orbit that bounds a single finite energy plane. As a result, the unit element of the contact homology algebra is exact and so the contact homology vanishes. This result can be extended to…
Let Y(r) be the closed, oriented three-manifold obtained by performing rational r-surgery on the right-handed trefoil knot in the three-sphere. Using contact surgery and the Heegaard Floer contact invariants we construct positive, tight contact structures on Y(r) for every r not equal to 1. This implies, in particular, that the oriented boundaries of the positive E6 and E7 plumbings carry positive, tight contact structures, solving a well-known open problem.
The Gompf $θ$-Invariant of Canonical Contact Structures via Legendrian Surgery
本文通过Legendrian手术描述规范接触结构，并推导出Seifert纤维化情况下的Gompf θ-不变量的闭式公式，同时证明了任意塑形树的递归公式，展示了规范接触结构在θ值上严格最小化，并排除了大量Stein可填充的接触理化球面的Sympetic有理同调球填充。
We show that two open books in a given closed, oriented three-manifold admit isotopic stabilizations, where the stabilization is made by successive plumbings with Hopf bands, if and only if their associated plane fields are homologous. Since this condition is automatically fulfilled in an integral homology sphere, the theorem implies a conjecture of J Harer, namely, that any fibered link in the three-sphere can be obtained from the unknot by a sequence of plumbings and deplumbings of Hopf bands. The proof presented here involves contact geometry in an essential way.
An isolated complex surface singularity induces a canonical contact structure on its link. In this paper, we initiate the study of the existence problem of Stein cobordisms between these contact structures depending on the properties of singularities. As a first step we construct an explicit Stein cobordism from any contact 3-manifold to the canonical contact structure of a proper almost rational singularity introduced by Nemethi. We also show that the construction cannot always work in the reverse direction: in fact the U-filtration depth of contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariant obstructs the exist…
We complete the classification of symplectic fillings of tight contact structures on lens spaces. In particular, we show that any symplectic filling $X$ of a virtually overtwisted contact structure on $L(p,q)$ has another symplectic structure that fills the universally tight contact structure on $L(p,q)$. Moreover, we show that the Stein filling of $L(p,q)$ with maximal second homology is given by the plumbing of disk bundles. We also consider the question of constructing symplectic cobordisms between lens spaces and report some partial results.
In this paper, we show that the Ozsváth-Szabó contact invariant $c^+(ξ)\in HF^+(-Y)$ of a contact 3-manifold $(Y,ξ)$ can be calculated combinatorially if $Y$ is the boundary of a certain type of plumbing $X$, and $ξ$ is induced by a Stein structure on $X$. Our technique uses an algorithm of Ozsváth and Szabó to determine the Heegaard-Floer homology of such 3-manifolds. We discuss two important applications of this technique in contact topology. First, we show that it simplifies the calculation of the Ozsváth-Stipsicz-Szabó obstruction to admitting a planar open book. Then we define a numerical…
We construct a contact 5-manifold supported by infinitely many distinct open books with the identity monodromy and pairwise exotic Stein pages (i.e. pages are pairwise homeomorphic but non-diffeomorphic Stein fillings of a fixed contact 3-manifold), moreover we describe a process of generating infinitely many such examples. In contrast to this result, on each of $\#_{n} S^{2}\times S^{3}$ and $\#_{n} S^{2}\tilde{\times} S^{3}$ $(n\geq 2)$ we construct infinitely many open books with pairwise exotic Stein pages (and identity monodromy) supporting mutually distinct contact structures.
We consider a fixed contact 3-manifold that admits infinitely many compact Stein fillings which are all homeomorphic but pairwise non-diffeomorphic. Each of these fillings gives rise to a closed contact 5-manifold described as a contact open book whose page is the filling at hand and whose monodromy is the identity symplectomorphism. We show that the resulting infinitely many contact 5-manifolds are all diffeomorphic but pairwise non-contactomorphic. Moreover, we explicitly determine these contact 5-manifolds.
Exotic Dehn twists on sums of two contact 3-manifolds
本文利用推广的 Kronheimer–Mrowka 接触不变量与凸球面 h-原理，证明两个闭接触3-流形连通和上的 Dehn 扭转可形成无限阶奇异接触映射类，并给出 Colin 分解定理的参数化版本及过扭转情形的新现象。
In a recent paper of Akhmedov, Etnyre, Mark and Smith, it was shown that there exist infinitely many contact Seifert fibered 3-manifolds each of which admits infinitely many exotic (homeomorphic but pairwise non-diffeomorphic) simply-connected Stein fillings. Here we extend this result to a larger set of contact Seifert fibered 3-manifolds with many singular fibers and observe that these 3-manifolds are singularity links. In addition, we prove that the contact structures induced by the Stein fillings are the canonical contact structures on these singularity links. As a consequence, we verify a…
We give several criteria on a closed, oriented 3-manifold that will imply that it is the boundary of a (simply connected) 4-manifold that admits infinitely many distinct smooth structures. We also show that any weakly fillable contact 3-manifold, or contact 3-manifolds with non-vanishing Heegaard Floer invariant, is the boundary of a simply connected 4-manifolds that admits infinitely many distinct smooth structures each of which supports a symplectic structure with concave boundary, that is there are infinitely many exotic caps for any such contact manifold.
Fillable structures on negative-definite Seifert fibred spaces
本文研究负定星形连接空间上的可填充接触结构，证明此类Seifert纤维空间具有唯一的负最大扭数，并通过晶格上同调的Alexander滤子计算该扭数，进一步展示这些流形上的负扭紧结构由复表面奇点的最小解析中的Stein结构诱导。
Let k>2. We prove that the cotangent bundles of oriented homotopy (2k-1)-spheres S and S' are symplectomorphic only if the classes defined by S and S' agree up to sign in the quotient group of oriented homotopy spheres modulo those which bound parallelizable manifolds. We also show that if the connect sum of real projective space of dimension (4k-1) and a homotopy (4k-1)-sphere admits a Lagrangian embedding in complex projective space, then twice the homotopy sphere framed bounds. The proofs build on previous work of Abouzaid and the authors, in combination with a new cut-and-paste argument, w…
Exotic tight contact structures on $\mathbb{R}^n$
本文通过为凸开接触流形构造接触同调变体，证明了所有 $n>2$ 时 $\mathbb{R}^{2n-1}$ 上存在无穷多个奇异紧接触结构。
We introduce a new invariant, the \textit{positive idempotent group}, for strongly asymptotically dynamically convex contact manifolds. This invariant can be used to distinguish different contact structures. As an application, for any complex dimension $n>8$ and any positive integer $k$, we can construct $n-$dimensional Stein manifolds $V_0,V_1,\cdots,V_k$ such that $\tilde{H}_j(V_i)=0, j\neq n-1,n$, $V_i's$ are almost symplectomorphic, their boundaries are in the same almost contact class but not contactomorphic.
Exotic symplectomorphisms and contact circle actions
该研究利用Floer同调方法，建立了标准辛球上奇异辛同胚的不存在性与标准切触球面上自由切触圆周作用的拓扑约束的关联，还推广至Liouville域情形，应用于辛映射类群与切触同胚群基本群的研究。
It is known that the only Stein filling of the standard contact structure on S^3 is B^4. In this paper, we construct simply connected exotic compact Stein 4-manifold pairs for any Betti number $b_2 \geq 1$; we do this by enlarging corks and plugs.
We exhibit the first examples of contact structures on $S^{2n-1}$ with $n\geq 4$ and on $S^3\times S^2$, all equipped with their standard smooth structures, for which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy. As a new technical tool for the study of the volume growth of Reeb flows we introduce the notion of algebraic growth of wrapped Floer homology. Its power stems from its stability under several geometric operations on Liouville domains.
The symplectization of an overtwisted contact structure in Euclidean 3--space is shown to be an exotic symplectic structure on Euclidean 4--space. The technique can be extended to produce exotic symplectic structures in higher dimensional Euclidean spaces using a GPS--structure and applies to symplectizations of appropriate open contact manifolds.
We reprove and strengthen some old difficult theorems of 4-manifolds by the aid of recently discovered modern tools, which involve contact structures on 3-manifolds, compact Stein domains, etc.
Spinal open books and symplectic fillings with exotic fibers
本文推广了Wendl的结果，证明平面脊柱开卷分解支撑的接触3-流形的最小辛填充形变等价于带边Lefschetz纤维化中正多截面的补集，并利用新定义的脊柱映射类群完成抛物环面丛的强填充分类。
Recently Francisco Presas Mata constructed the first examples of closed contact manifolds of dimension larger than 3 that contain a plastikstufe, and hence are non-fillable. Using contact surgery on his examples we create on every sphere S^{2n-1}, n>1, an exotic contact structure ξ_- that also contains a plastikstufe. As a consequence, every closed contact manifold M (except S^1) can be converted into a contact manifold that is not (semi-positively) fillable by taking the connected sum of M with (S^{2n-1},ξ_-).
Let X be a 4-manifold with contact boundary. We prove that the monopole invariants of X introduced by Kronheimer and Mrowka vanish under the following assumptions: (i) a connected component of the boundary of X carries a metric with positive scalar curvature and (ii) either b_2^+(X)>0 or the boundary of X is disconnected. As an application we show that the Poincare homology 3-sphere, oriented as the boundary of the positive E_8 plumbing, does not carry symplectically semi-fillable contact structures. This proves, in particular, a conjecture of Gompf, and provides the first example of a 3-manif…
We show that, under a certain condition, contact 5-manifolds can `coarsely' distinguish smooth structures on compact Stein 4-manifolds via contact open books. We also give a simple sufficient condition for an infinite family of Stein 4-manifolds to have an infinite subfamily of pairwise non-diffeomorphic Stein 4-manifolds. The proofs rely on the adjunction inequality. We remark that there are various examples of infinitely many pairwise exotic Stein 4-manifolds whose smooth structures can be distinguished by these results.
Symplectic symmetries of a hypothetical exotic $CP^2$: a potential construction or a nonexistence proof
本文研究同胚但不同胚于 CP^2 的辛 4-流形及其有限阶辛同胚的存在性，将其归结为 12 个接触管道流形的辛填充问题，并确定了伪自由辛 Z_p-作用的阶与局部表示，提出潜在构造或不存在性证明。
We introduce a procedure for gluing Weinstein domains along Weinstein subdomains. By gluing along flexible subdomains, we show that any finite collection of high-dimensional Weinstein domains with the same topology are Weinstein subdomains of a `maximal' Weinstein domain also with the same topology. As an application, we produce exotic cotangent bundles containing many closed regular Lagrangians that are formally Lagrangian isotopic but not Hamiltonian isotopic and also give a new construction of exotic Weinstein structures on Euclidean space. We describe a similar construction in the contact …
Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary and exotic embeddings
该研究定义带切触边界4-流形不变量的族版本以检测异状微分同胚，还证明补集微分同胚的光滑闭4-流形中存在首个异状3-球面例子，推进4-流形拓扑研究。
For a certain class of exotic contact manifolds of dimension greater than 3, we show that there is an abundance of closed exact Lagrangians in their symplectization. All of these Lagrangians are displaceable by Hamiltonian isotopy, and many of the examples are nulhomotopic.
A monopole invariant for families of contact structures
本文利用monopole Floer homology将Kronheimer--Mrowka--Ozsváth--Szabó接触不变量推广至接触结构族，研究3-流形上接触结构空间的拓扑，并以此阻碍自然纤维化的截面存在性，从而检测出具有凸球面边界的接触3-流形上的奇异环。
This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, we use symplectic homology to distinguish the contact structures on the Brieskorn manifolds $Σ(2l,2,2,2)$, which contact homology cannot distinguish. This answers a question from [22]. In the second part, we prove the existence of infinitely many exotic but homotopically trivial exotic contact structures on $S^7$, distinguished by the mean Euler characteristic of $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology. Apart from various connected sum constructions, these contact structures can be taken from the Brieskorn manifolds $Σ(78k+1,13,6,3,3)$. We end…
A positive contactomorphism of a contact manifold $M$ is the end point of a contact isotopy on $M$ that is always positively transverse to the contact structure. Assume that $M$ contains a Legendrian sphere $Λ$, and that $(M,Λ)$ is fillable by a Liouville domain $(W,ω)$ with exact Lagrangian $L$ such that $ω|_{π_2(W,L)}=0$. We show that if the exponential growth of the action filtered wrapped Floer homology of $(W,L)$ is positive, then every positive contactomorphism of $M$ has positive topological entropy. This result generalizes the result of Alves and Meiwes from Reeb flows to positive cont…
The aim of this paper is to address the following question: given a contact manifold $(Σ, ξ)$, what can be said about the aspherical symplectic manifolds $(W, ω)$ bounded by $(Σ, ξ)$ ? We first extend a theorem of Eliashberg, Floer and McDuff to prove that under suitable assumptions the map from $H_{*}(Σ)$ to $H_{*}(W)$ induced by inclusion is surjective. We then apply this method in the case of contact manifolds having a contact embedding in $ {\mathbb R}^{2n}$ or in a subcritical Stein manifold. We prove in many cases that the homology of the fillings is uniquely determined. Finally we use m…
Symplectic capacities of domains close to the ball and Banach-Mazur geodesics in the space of contact forms
本文研究接近欧氏球的区域的辛容量一致性及接触形式空间的Banach-Mazur测地线问题，证明C²接近时辛容量一致、C¹接近时不成立，并借助Zoll接触形式的拟不变性与新谱不变量证明极小测地线存在性。
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