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Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and fillability of contact structures

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this article we provide an infinite family of weakly symplectically fillable contact structures with trivial Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariants over Z/2Z. As a consequence of this fact, we show how Heegaard-Floer theory can distinguish between weakly and strongly fillable contact structures.

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@article{arxiv.math/0403367,
  title  = {Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and fillability of contact structures},
  author = {Paolo Ghiggini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403367},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

An introductory section on Heegaard-Floer theory has been added, the vanishing result has been improved to cover an infinite family of weakly simplectically fillable contact structures