A class of tight contact structures on .
A few remarks about symplectic filling.
A quantum Duistermaat-Heckamn formula?
Some aspects of Duistermaat-Heckman formula in finite dimensions are reviewed. We especulate with some of its possible extensions to infinite dimensions. In particular we review the localization principle and the geometry of loop spaces following Witten and Atiyah?s insight.
A stable classification of Lefschetz fibrations.
A vanishing theorem for twisted Alexander polynomials with applications to symplectic 4-manifolds
In this paper we show that given any 3-manifold and any non-fibered class in there exists a representation such that the corresponding twisted Alexander polynomial is zero. We obtain this result by extending earlier work of ours and by combining this with recent results of Agol and Wise on separability of 3-manifold groups. This result allows us to completely classify symplectic 4-manifolds with a free circle action, and to determine their symplectic cones.
An exotic smooth structure on .
An infinite family of tight, not semi-fillable contact three-manifolds.
An invariant of nonpositively curved contact manifolds
We define an invariant of contact structures and foliations (on Riemannian manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature) which is upper semi-continuous with respect to deformations and thus gives an obstruction to the topology of foliations which can be approximated by isotopies of a given contact structure.