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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 (Y,ζ)(Y,\zeta), producing a finite collection of contact manifolds, also described diagrammatically, whose exact/weak symplectic fillings determine those of (Y,ζ)(Y,\zeta). 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!