Left-handed stabilization has vanishing contact homology

Let (M,α)(M,\alpha) be a cooriented contact manifold of dimension at least 33. Let (Σ,ψ)(\Sigma,\psi) be a supporting open book for (M,α)(M,\alpha), and suppose that Σ\Sigma contains a Lagrangian ball LL whose boundary is a Legendrian sphere in Σ\partial\Sigma.

Left-handed stabilization conjecture. The left-handed stabilization of (M,α)(M,\alpha) along LL has vanishing contact homology:

HC(StabL(M,α))=0.HC_*\bigl(\operatorname{Stab}_{L}^{-}(M,\alpha)\bigr)=0.

The paper states this claim among its conjectures, although its introduction also describes a theorem proving algebraic overtwistedness for a boundary-parallel Lagrangian ball in a compatible open book. The precise relationship between that theorem and this formulation should be checked.

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Primary source

Frederic Bourgeois and Otto van Koert, “Contact homology of left-handed stabilizations and plumbing of open books”, arXiv:0803.0391 (2008).

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