Fillings of unit cotangent bundles of nonorientable surfaces

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Burak Ozbagci – UCLA and Koc University
Organizer
John Etnyre
We prove that any minimal weak symplectic filling of the canonical contact structure on the unit cotangent bundle of a nonorientable closed surface other than the real projective plane is s-cobordant rel boundary to the disk cotangent bundle of the surface. If the nonorientable surface is the Klein bottle, then we show that the minimal weak symplectic filling is unique up to homeomorphism. (This is a joint work with Youlin Li.)