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Contact open books with exotic pages

Geometric Topology 2017-01-05 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.1502.03233,
  title  = {Contact open books with exotic pages},
  author = {Burak Ozbagci and Otto van Koert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03233},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures

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