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Tight, not semi–fillable contact circle bundles

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Extending our earlier results, we prove that certain tight contact structures on circle bundles over surfaces are not symplectically semi–fillable, thus confirming a conjecture of Ko Honda.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, I-56127, Pisa, Italy

    Paolo Lisca

  2. Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1053 Budapest, Reáltanoda Utca, 13–15, Hungary

    András I. Stipsicz

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 57R57, 57R17

Partially supported by MURST and member of EDGE, Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2000-00101, supported by The European Human Potential Programme

Partially supported by OTKA T034885

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Lisca, P., Stipsicz, A. Tight, not semi–fillable contact circle bundles. Math. Ann. 328, 285–298 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-003-0483-0

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