(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA , US;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA , US
Abstract:
In this note we make several observations concerning symplectic cobordisms. Among other things we show that every contact 3-manifold has infinitely many concave symplectic fillings and that all overtwisted contact 3-manifolds are “symplectic cobordism equivalent”. Received: 26 March 2001 / Revised version: 1 May 2001 / Published online: 28 February 2002