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Orderable Contact Structures on Liouville-fillable Contact Manifolds

Symplectic Geometry 2013-04-15 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of positive loops of contactomorphisms on a Liouville-fillable contact manifold (Σ,ξ=ker(α))(\Sigma,\xi=\ker(\alpha)). Previous results show that a large class of Liouville-fillable contact manifolds admit contractible positive loops. In contrast, we show that for any Liouville-fillable (Σ,α)(\Sigma,\alpha) with dim(Σ)7\dim(\Sigma) \geq 7, there exists a Liouville-fillable contact structure ξ\xi' on Σ\Sigma which admits no positive loop at all. Further, ξ\xi' can be chosen to agree with ξ\xi on the complement of a Darboux ball.

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@article{arxiv.1304.3662,
  title  = {Orderable Contact Structures on Liouville-fillable Contact Manifolds},
  author = {Peter Weigel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.3662},
  year   = {2013}
}

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