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Stein domains with exotic contact boundaries

Symplectic Geometry 2020-11-24 v4

Abstract

We introduce a new invariant, the \textit{positive idempotent group}, for strongly asymptotically dynamically convex contact manifolds. This invariant can be used to distinguish different contact structures. As an application, for any complex dimension n>8n>8 and any positive integer kk, we can construct nn-dimensional Stein manifolds V0,V1,,VkV_0,V_1,\cdots,V_k such that H~j(Vi)=0,jn1,n\tilde{H}_j(V_i)=0, j\neq n-1,n, VisV_i's are almost symplectomorphic, their boundaries are in the same almost contact class but not contactomorphic.

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@article{arxiv.2002.05524,
  title  = {Stein domains with exotic contact boundaries},
  author = {Mu Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.05524},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

53 pages, 5 figures

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