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We study several notions of dimension for (pre-)triangulated categories naturally arising from topology and symplectic geometry. We prove new bounds on these dimensions and raise several questions for further investigation. For instance, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Andrew Hanlon , Jeff Hicks , Oleg Lazarev

Consider a holomorphic contact manifold. Holomorphic discs tangent to the contact planes define a pseudometric on the manifold. This pseudometric integrates to a pseudodistance. When the pseudodistance is a distance, we call the contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Filippo Bracci , Benjamin McKay , Riccardo Ugolini

We give a combinatorial description of the Legendrian contact homology algebra associated to a Legendrian link in $S^1\times S^2$ or any connected sum $\#^k(S^1\times S^2)$, viewed as the contact boundary of the Weinstein manifold obtained…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Tobias Ekholm , Lenhard Ng

Extending work of Chen, we prove the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three for strongly fillable contact structures with either non-vanishing first Chern class or with strong and exact filling having non-trivial canonical bundle. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Zehmisch

We show that the pre-order defined on the category of contact manifolds by arbitrary symplectic cobordisms is considerably less rigid than its counterparts for exact or Stein cobordisms: in particular, we exhibit large new classes of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Chris Wendl

We construct using Lefschetz fibrations a large family of contact manifolds with the following properties: Any bounding contact embedding into an exact symplectic manifold satisfying a mild topological assumption is non-displaceable and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Peter Albers , Mark McLean

In this note we make several observations concerning symplectic cobordisms. Among other things we show that every contact 3-manifold has infinitely many concave symplectic fillings and that all overtwisted contact 3-manifolds are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We provide a closed, simply connected, symplectic $6$-manifold having infinitely many codimension $2$ symplectic submanifolds. These are mutually homologous but homotopy inequivalent, and furthermore, they cannot admit complex structures.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Takahiro Oba

We prove that geometric intersections between Weinstein handles induce algebraic relations in the wrapped Fukaya category, which we use to study the Grothendieck group. We produce a surjective map from middle-dimensional singular cohomology…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Oleg Lazarev

We consider exact fillings with vanishing first Chern class of asymptotically dynamically convex (ADC) manifolds. We construct two structure maps on the positive symplectic cohomology and prove that they are independent of the filling for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Zhengyi Zhou

The first goal of this paper is to construct examples of higher dimensional contact manifolds with specific properties. Our main results in this direction are the existence of tight virtually overtwisted closed contact manifolds in all…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Fabio Gironella

The aim of this note is to present a construction of symplectic structures on orientable globally hyperbolic 4-dimensional lorentzian manifolds. Said structures are defined on the manifold itself, not on its cotangent bundle. It also…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Romero Solha

We give finiteness results and some classifications up to diffeomorphism of minimal strong symplectic fillings of Seifert fibered spaces over S^2 satisfying certain conditions, with a fixed natural contact structure. In some cases we can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Laura Starkston

A presymplectic structure on odd dimensional manifold is given by a closed 2-form which is nondegenerate, i.e., of maximal rank. We investigate geometry of presymplectic manifolds. Some basic theorems analogous to those in symplectic and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-20 Boguslaw Hajduk , Rafal Walczak

Using recent work on high dimensional Lutz twists and families of Weinstein structures we show that any almost contact structure on a 5-manifold is homotopic to a contact structure.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-05 John B. Etnyre

Symmetric R-spaces can be characterized as real forms of Hermitian symmetric spaces, and as such, they are all embedded as Lagrangian submanifolds. We show that their maximal Weinstein tubular neighborhoods are dense and use this property…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Johanna Bimmermann

Let $(M,\omega)$ be a symplectic manifold endowed with a agrangian foliation ${\cal L}$, it has been shown by Weinstein [16] hat the symplectic structure of $M$ defines on each leaf of ${\cal L}$, connection which curvature and torsion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aristide Tsemo

For a certain class of exotic contact manifolds of dimension greater than 3, we show that there is an abundance of closed exact Lagrangians in their symplectization. All of these Lagrangians are displaceable by Hamiltonian isotopy, and many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Emmy Murphy

We examine how symplectic cohomology may be used as an invariant on symplectic structures, and investigate the non-uniqueness of these structures on Liouville domains, a field which has seen much development in the past decade. Notably, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Dustin Tran

We give examples of compact symplectic manifolds with disconnected contact type boundary in dimension $4n$ for any $n\geq 1$. The example is given by a subset of the tangent bundle of a compact quotient of the complex hyperbolic space…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Macarini