Tight contact structures without symplectic fillings are everywhere
Symplectic Geometry
2026-03-17 v5 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We show that for all , any -dimensional manifold that admits a tight contact structure, also admits a tight but non-fillable contact structure, in the same almost contact class. For , 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 with torsion first Chern class.
Cite
@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