arXiv research

Study on contact Hamiltonian functions for singular contact structures.

An isolated complex surface singularity induces a canonical contact structure on its link. In this paper, we initiate the study of the existence problem of Stein cobordisms between these contact structures depending on the properties of singularities. As a first step we construct an explicit Stein cobordism from any co…

Study contact resolutions for Jacobi structures, providing examples and impossibility results.

In a recent paper of Akhmedov, Etnyre, Mark and Smith, it was shown that there exist infinitely many contact Seifert fibered 3-manifolds each of which admits infinitely many exotic (homeomorphic but pairwise non-diffeomorphic) simply-connected Stein fillings. Here we extend this result to a larger set of contact Seifer…

We prove that if a contact 3-manifold admits an open book decomposition of genus 0, a certain intersection pattern cannot appear in the homology of any of its minimal symplectic fillings, and moreover, fillings cannot contain symplectic surfaces of positive genus. Applying these obstructions to canonical contact struct…

We show that the contact structure on the link of a cusp singularity is contactomorphic to a Sol-manifold with the positive contact structure arising from the Anosov flow.

Cylindrical contact homology computed for links of simple singularities.

We identify the canonical contact structure on the link of a simple elliptic or cusp singularity by drawing a Legendrian handlebody diagram of one of its Stein fillings. We also show that the canonical contact structure on the link of a numerically Gorenstein surface singularity is trivial considered as a real plane bu…

Planar multilinks prove rational singularities in surface geometry.

Let a contact 3-manifold $(Y, ξ_0)$ be the link of a normal surface singularity equipped with its canonical contact structure $ξ_0$. We prove a special property of such contact 3-manifolds of "algebraic" origin: the Heegaard Floer invariant $c^+(ξ_0)\in HF^+(-Y)$ cannot lie in the image of the $U$-action on $HF^+(-Y)$.…

Study symplectic cohomology of certain singularities using homological mirror symmetry.

We describe some natural relations connecting contact geometry, classical Monge-Ampere equations and theory of singularities of solutions to nonlinear PDEs. They reveal the hidden meaning of Monge-Ampere equations and sheds new light on some aspects of contact geometry.

Using standard methods for studying singularities of projections and of contacts, we classify the stable singularities of affine $λ$-equidistants of $n$-dimensional closed submanifolds of $\mathbb R^q$, for $q\leq 2n$, whenever $(2n,q)$ is a pair of nice dimensions.

In this article we classify up to isotopy tight contact structures on Seifert manifolds over the torus with one singular fibre.

We study the singularities of Legendrian subvarieties of contact manifolds in the complex-analytic category and prove two rigidity results. The first one is that Legendrian singularities with reduced tangent cones are contactomorphically biholomorphic to their tangent cones. This result is partly motivated by a problem…

New proof shows unique symplectic fillings for certain surface singularity links.

Compute symplectic cohomology of cAn singularities.

In this paper, we extend and complete the classification of the generic singularities of the 3D-contact sub-Riemmanian conjugate locus in a neighbourhood of the origin.

We study the geometry of the cuspidal edge $M$ in $\mathbb R^3$ derived from its contact with planes and lines (referred to as flat geometry). The contact of $M$ with planes is measured by the singularities of the height functions on $M$. We classify submersions on a model of $M$ by diffeomorphisms and recover the cont…

We describe Milnor open books and Legendrian surgery diagrams for canonical contact structures of links of some rational surface singularities. We also describe an infinite family of Milnor fillable contact 3-manifolds so that the Milnor genus (resp. Milnor norm) is strictly greater than the support genus (resp. suppor…

Given a contact 3-manifold we consider the problem of when a given function can be realized as the Ricci curvature of a Reeb vector field for the contact structure. We will use topological tools to show that every admissible function can be realized as such Ricci curvature for a singular metric which is an honest compa…

Study of $G_2$-structures with isolated singularities and bounded torsion.

Cylindrical contact homology linked to Ehrhart polynomials and Chen-Ruan cohomology.

Classifies real tight contact structures on lens spaces and solid tori.

Authors provide counterexamples to Weinstein conjecture in 3D.

The paper proves infinitely many strong symplectic fillings for cusp singularity links.

An important class of contact 3--manifolds are those that arise as links of rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We explicitly describe symplectic caps (concave fillings) of such contact 3--manifolds. As an application, we present a new obstruction for such singularities to admit rational homo…

It is given the diffeomorphism classification on generic singularities of tangent varieties to curves with arbitrary codimension in a projective space. The generic classifications are performed in terms of certain geometric structures and differential systems on flag manifolds, via several techniques in differentiable …

Constructs minimal capillary cones with specific symmetry and proves their existence and uniqueness.

A differential 1-form $α$ on a manifold of odd dimension $2n+1$, which satisfies the contact condition $α\wedge (dα)^n \neq 0$ almost everywhere, but which vanishes at a point $O$, i.e. $α(O) = 0$, is called a \textit{singular contact form} at $O$. The aim of this paper is to study local normal forms (formal, analytic …

It is known that the lens space $L(2n,1)$ supports a virtually overtwisted contact structure arising as the boundary of the Milnor fiber of a complex hypersurface singularity. In this article we study the problem of realizing other $(L(p,q),ξ)$ in such a way, obtaining a series of necessary conditions for this to happe…

Study on Hausdorff dimension of singular CR Yamabe problem.

Study Stein and Milnor fillings of links from surface singularities.

This paper extends the evolution operator to contact mechanics, linking Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.

The study of symplectic fillings for rational cuspidal curves.

In this paper we write explicitly the open book decompositions of links of quotient surface singularities supporting the corresponding unique Milnor fillable contact structure. The page-genus of these Milnor open books are minimal among all Milnor open books supporting the same contact structure. We also investigate wh…

New Stein fillings found for non-weighted homogeneous singularities.

We classify positive, tight contact structures on closed Seifert fibered 3-manifolds with base S^2, three singular fibers and e_0\geq 0.

We establish a long exact sequence for Legendrian submanifolds L in P x R, where P is an exact symplectic manifold, which admit a Hamiltonian isotopy that displaces the projection of L off of itself. In this sequence, the singular homology H_* maps to linearized contact cohomology CH^* which maps to linearized contact …

New contact structures detected by contact homology.

Study shows infinite order in mapping class groups for certain 3D shapes.

We show that the canonical contact structure on the link of a normal complex singularity is universally tight. As a corollary we show the existence of closed, oriented, atoroidal 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental groups which carry universally tight contact structures that are not deformations of taut (or Reebless)…

We study Legendrian singular links up to contact isotopy. Using a special property of the singular points, we define the singular connected sum of Legendrian singular links. This concept is a generalization of the connected sum and can be interpreted as a tangle replacement, which provides a way to classify Legendrian …

Extends coisotropic embedding theorem to various geometric settings.

Locally, isoperimetric problems on Riemannian surfaces are sub-Riemannian problems in dimension 3. The particular case of Dido problems corresponds to a class of singular contact sub-Riemannian metrics : metrics which have the charateristic vertor field as symmetry. We give a classification of the generic conjugate loc…

Investigate the local geometry of smooth surfaces in 4-space via contact with 2-planes and apparent contours.

We determine the relationship between the contact structure induced by a fibered knot, K, in the three-sphere and the contact structures induced by its various cables. Understanding this relationship allows us to classify fibered cable knots which bound a properly embedded complex curve in the four-ball satisfying a ge…

Mathematical formulas for elliptic curve integrals solve anomaly equations.