Mixed tori in contact surgery diagrams
Geometric Topology
2025-10-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We develop a diagrammatic framework for applying the symplectic JSJ decomposition to exact/weak symplectic fillings of 3-dimensional contact manifolds. Namely, we apply the symplectic JSJ decomposition to a contact surgery diagram for some , producing a finite collection of contact manifolds, also described diagrammatically, whose exact/weak symplectic fillings determine those of . We apply this technique to recover known symplectic filling classifications for certain lens spaces and torus bundles, and also to provide an algorithm for classifying the exact/weak symplectic fillings of a large class of plumbed 3-manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.2510.19580,
title = {Mixed tori in contact surgery diagrams},
author = {Austin Christian and Tanushree Shah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19580},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
19 pages, 9 figures, comments welcome!