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Gompf connected sum for orbifolds and K-contact Smale-Barden manifolds

Differential Geometry 2020-03-17 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We develop the Gompf fiber connected sum operation for symplectic orbifolds. We use it to construct a symplectic 4-orbifold with b1=0b_1=0 and containing symplectic surfaces of genus 1 and 2 that are disjoint and span the rational homology. This is used in turn to construct a K-contact Smale-Barden manifold with specified 2-homology that satisfies the known topological constraints with sharper estimates than the examples constructed previously. The manifold can be chosen spin or non-spin.

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@article{arxiv.2003.07319,
  title  = {Gompf connected sum for orbifolds and K-contact Smale-Barden manifolds},
  author = {Vicente Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07319},
  year   = {2020}
}

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35 pages, 2 figures