Every contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure

dc.creatorNiederkrüger, Klaus
dc.creatorvan Koert, Otto
dc.date2007-02-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:38:13Z
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dc.descriptionRecently 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_-).
dc.description15 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702228
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702228
dc.identifierImproved version in Int. Math. Res. Not. 2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1093/imrn/rnm115
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/140650
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject53D35; 57R17
dc.titleEvery contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure
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