Relative Giroux correspondence for contact manifolds with convex boundary

Let MM be a compact contact manifold with convex boundary. A contact partial open book is a triple (S,W,ϕ)(S,W,\phi), and let M(S,W,ϕ)M_{(S,W,\phi)} denote the contact manifold associated with it.

Relative Giroux correspondence. Every compact contact manifold with convex boundary is contactomorphic to

MM(S,W,ϕ)M\cong M_{(S,W,\phi)}

for some contact partial open book (S,W,ϕ)(S,W,\phi).

This is the relative analogue of the Giroux correspondence, extending the open-book description of closed contact manifolds to contact manifolds with convex boundary. The source states it as a conjecture, and no resolution is given here.

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Primary source

Ko Honda and Yang Huang, “Bypass attachments in higher-dimensional contact topology”, arXiv:1803.09142 (2019).

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