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Infinite not contact isotopic embeddings in $(S^{2n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}})$ for $n\ge 4$

Symplectic Geometry 2022-07-29 v2

Abstract

For n4n\ge 4, we show that there are infinitely many formally contact isotopic embeddings of (STSn1,ξstd)(ST^*S^{n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}}) to (S2n1,ξstd)(S^{2n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}}) that are not contact isotopic. This resolves a conjecture of Casals and Etnyre except for the n=3n=3 case. The argument does not appeal to the surgery formula of critical handle attachment for Floer theory/SFT.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07905,
  title  = {Infinite not contact isotopic embeddings in $(S^{2n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}})$ for $n\ge 4$},
  author = {Zhengyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07905},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor revision, to appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society