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Every contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure

Symplectic Geometry 2007-10-24 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Recently Francisco Presas Mata constructed the first examples of closed contact manifolds of dimension larger than 3 that contain a plastikstufe, and hence are non-fillable. Using contact surgery on his examples we create on every sphere S^{2n-1}, n>1, an exotic contact structure \xi_- that also contains a plastikstufe. As a consequence, every closed contact manifold M (except S^1) can be converted into a contact manifold that is not (semi-positively) fillable by taking the connected sum of M with (S^{2n-1},\xi_-).

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@article{arxiv.math/0702228,
  title  = {Every contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure},
  author = {Klaus Niederkrüger and Otto van Koert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702228},
  year   = {2007}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures

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