Wendl's uniqueness conjecture for fillings of unit cotangent bundles of surfaces

Let YY be the unit cotangent bundle of a closed orientable surface Σg\Sigma_g of genus gg, equipped with its standard contact structure ξstd\xi_{std}. A Stein or exact filling of (Y,ξstd)(Y,\xi_{std}) is a compact symplectic filling of this contact manifold, and the disk cotangent bundle is the standard filling.

Wendl's conjecture. The diffeomorphism type of a Stein or exact filling of (Y,ξstd)(Y,\xi_{std}) is unique and is given by the disk cotangent bundle for every gg.

For g=0,1g=0,1, uniqueness up to symplectic deformation equivalence is known, while for g>1g>1 no exact or Stein filling not diffeomorphic to the disk cotangent bundle had been found. The statement concerns the stronger classification of fillings up to diffeomorphism.

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Tian-Jun Li, Cheuk Yu Mak and Kouichi Yasui, “Calabi-Yau Caps, Uniruled Caps and Symplectic Fillings”, arXiv:1412.3208 (2016).

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