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Tight contact structures without symplectic fillings are everywhere

Symplectic Geometry 2026-03-17 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that for all n3n \ge 3, any (2n+1)(2n+1)-dimensional manifold that admits a tight contact structure, also admits a tight but non-fillable contact structure, in the same almost contact class. For n=2n=2, we obtain the same result, provided that the first Chern class vanishes. We further construct Liouville but not Weinstein fillable contact structures on any Weinstein fillable contact manifold of dimension at least 77 with torsion first Chern class.

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@article{arxiv.2211.03680,
  title  = {Tight contact structures without symplectic fillings are everywhere},
  author = {Jonathan Bowden and Fabio Gironella and Agustin Moreno and Zhengyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03680},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

40 pages, final version, to appear in JEMS

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