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Unknottedness of symplectic submanifold fillings

Symplectic Geometry 2025-06-10 v1

Abstract

We show that any symplectic filling of the standard contact submanifold (S2n1,ξstd)(\mathbb{S}^{2n-1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}}) of (S2n+1,ξstd)(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1},\xi_{\mathrm{std}}) in (Dn+1,ωstd)(\mathbb{D}^{n+1},\omega_{\mathrm{std}}) is smoothly unknotted if n2n\ge 2. We also give a self-contained proof of the Siefring intersection formula between punctured holomorphic curves and holomorphic hypersurfaces used in the proof using the LL-simple setup of Bao-Honda.

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@article{arxiv.2506.06807,
  title  = {Unknottedness of symplectic submanifold fillings},
  author = {Zhengyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06807},
  year   = {2025}
}

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