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Exact orbifold fillings of contact manifolds

Symplectic Geometry 2021-11-23 v2

Abstract

We study exact orbifold fillings of contact manifolds using Floer theories. Motivated by Chen-Ruan's orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants, we define symplectic cohomology of an exact orbifold filling as a group using classical techniques, i.e. choosing generic almost complex structures. By studying moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic/Floer curves in orbifolds, we obtain various non-existence, restrictions and uniqueness results for orbifold singularities of exact orbifold fillings of many contact manifolds. For example, we show that exact orbifold fillings of (RP2n1,ξstd)(\mathbb{RP}^{2n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}}) always have exactly one singularity modeled on Cn/(Z/2Z)\mathbb{C}^n/(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}) if n2kn\ne 2^k. Lastly, we show that in dimension at least 33 there are pairs of contact manifolds without exact cobordisms in either direction, and that the same holds for exact orbifold cobordisms in dimension at least 55.

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@article{arxiv.2108.12247,
  title  = {Exact orbifold fillings of contact manifolds},
  author = {Fabio Gironella and Zhengyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12247},
  year   = {2021}
}

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57 pp. minor revision, comments welcome!