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We show that sutured embedded contact homology is a natural invariant of sutured contact 3-manifolds which can potentially detect some of the topology of the space of contact structures on a 3-manifold with boundary. The appendix, by C. H.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Cagatay Kutluhan , Steven Sivek , C. H. Taubes

In this article we address the existence of positive loops of contactomorphisms in overtwisted contact 3-folds. We present a construction of such positive loops in the contact fibered connected sum of certain contact 3-folds along…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Roger Casals , Francisco Presas

We prove that the automorphism group of a compact 6-manifold $M$ endowed with a symplectic half-flat SU(3)-structure has abelian Lie algebra with dimension bounded by min$\{5,b_1(M)\}$. Moreover, we study the properties of the automorphism…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Fabio Podestà , Alberto Raffero

We prove a contact non-squeezing result for a class of embeddings between starshaped domains in the contactization of the symplectization of the unit cotangent bundle of certain manifolds. The class of embeddings includes embeddings which…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Dylan Cant

The aim of this paper is to study algebraic K3 surfaces (defined over the complex number field) with a symplectic automorphism of prime order. In particular we consider the action of the automorphism on the second cohomology with integer…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Alice Garbagnati , Alessandra Sarti

We prove a result which establishes restrictions on the pseudoholomorphic curves which can exist in a stable Hamiltonian manifold in the presence of certain $\mathbb{R}$-invariant foliations of the symplectization by holomorphic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Agustin Moreno , Richard Siefring

We prove that closed connected contact manifolds of dimension $\geq 5$ related by an h-cobordism with a flexible Weinstein structure become contactomorphic after some kind of stabilization. We also provide examples of non-conjugate contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Sylvain Courte

This paper begins the study of relations between Riemannian geometry and global properties of contact structures on 3-manifolds. In particular we prove an analog of the sphere theorem from Riemannian geometry in the setting of contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-14 John B. Etnyre , Rafal Komendarczyk , Patrick Massot

A symplectic toric orbifold is a compact connected orbifold $M$, a symplectic form $\omega$ on $M$, and an effective Hamiltonian action of a torus $T$ on $M$, where the dimension of $T$ is half the dimension of $M$. We prove that there is a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Eugene Lerman , Susan Tolman

We introduce filtered cohomologies of differential forms on symplectic manifolds. They generalize and include the cohomologies discussed in Paper I and II as a subset. The filtered cohomologies are finite-dimensional and can be associated…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Chung-Jun Tsai , Li-Sheng Tseng , Shing-Tung Yau

We prove every oriented compact cyclic $3$-orbifold has a contact structure. There is another proof in the web by Daniel Herr in his uploaded thesis which depends on open book decompositions, ours is independent of that. We define…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Saibal Ganguli

We compute the integral homology (including torsion), the topological K-theory, and the Hodge structure on cohomology of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces and complete intersections in Gorenstein toric Fano varieties. The methods are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Charles F. Doran , John W. Morgan

All knots in $R^3$ possess Seifert surfaces, and so the classical Thurston-Bennequin and rotation (or Maslov) invariants for Legendrian knots in a contact structure on $R^3$ can be defined. The definitions extend easily to null-homologous…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Paul A. Schweitzer SJ , Fábio S. Souza

We consider the standard Darboux space equipped with the radial symmetric contact form. We study co-orientation preserving contactomorphisms between relatively compact domains up to the boundary. We determine the contactomorphism classes…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jan Eyll , Jonas Fritsch , Kai Zehmisch

We adapt algorithms for resolving the singularities of complex algebraic varieties to prove that the natural map of homology theories from complex bordism to the bordism theory of complex derived orbifolds splits. In equivariant stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Mohammed Abouzaid , Shaoyun Bai

We show that every (possibly degenerate) contact form on a closed three-manifold has at least two embedded Reeb orbits. We also show that if there are only finitely many embedded Reeb orbits, then their symplectic actions are not all…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner , Michael Hutchings

We study various topological invariants on a torsional geometry in the presence of a totally anti-symmetric torsion H under the closed condition dH = 0, which appears in string theory compactification scenarios. By using the identification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tetsuji Kimura

A rigorous foundation for the contact homology of Legendrian submanifolds in a contact manifold of the form $P\times \R$ where $P$ is an exact symplectic manifold is established. The class of such contact manifolds include 1-jet spaces of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Michael G. Sullivan

k-Contact geometry is a generalisation of contact geometry to analyse field theories. We develop an approach to k-contact geometry based on distributions that are distributionally maximally non-integrable and admit, locally, k commuting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Javier de Lucas , Xavier Rivas , Tomasz Sobczak

We study the space of pseudo-holomorphic spheres in compact symplectic manifolds with convex boundary. We show that the theory of Gromov-Witten invariants can be extended to the class of semi-positive manifolds with convex boundary. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Sergei Lanzat