English

Symplectic fillings, contact surgeries, and Lagrangian disks

Geometric Topology 2019-01-28 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

This paper completely answers the question of when contact (r)-surgery on a Legendrian knot in the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere yields a symplectically fillable contact manifold for r in (0,1]. We also give obstructions for other positive r and investigate Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian knots.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07287,
  title  = {Symplectic fillings, contact surgeries, and Lagrangian disks},
  author = {James Conway and John B. Etnyre and Bülent Tosun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07287},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures. Improved exposition and changed claim relating decomposable and regular Lagrangians. This version to appear in IMRN