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Algebra/Topology Seminar – Austin Christian (Georgia Tech)
October 27, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Title: Symplectic fillings of lens spaces
Abstract: Many contact 3-manifolds arise as boundaries of symplectic 4-manifolds, and we are often interested in the filling problem for a given contact 3-manifold. That is, how many symplectic 4-manifolds have the given contact boundary? This problem has previously been solved for standard contact structures on lens spaces. We use a recent technique due to Menke to show that the filling problem for non-standard contact structures on lens spaces can be reduced to the same problem for standard structures. This talk is based on joint work with Youlin Li.