Symplectic fillings of virtually overtwisted torus bundles
Location
Math 383-N
Event Series
Event Type
Seminar
Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00 PM
Austin Christian (UCLA)
A classical problem in contact geometry asks us to classify the symplectic manifolds which fill a given contact manifold. For virtually overtwisted torus bundles over S^1, we use Menke's JSJ-type decomposition to reduce this classification to the same problem for lens spaces. This leads to a complete classification in the elliptic and parabolic cases.