Nonfillability conjecture for contact structures from Seifert surgery diagrams

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Let MM be a Seifert fibered 33--manifold described by Figure~, and let the diagram define contact structures by contact (±1)(\pm 1)--surgeries according to the stated algorithm. Assume the coefficients rir_i satisfy the conditions~. A contact structure is symplectically fillable if it is the boundary contact structure of a compact symplectic four--manifold with the boundary orientation and compatibility condition described in the source.

Nonfillability conjecture. No contact structure defined by Figure~ and satisfying conditions~ is fillable.

The paper gives evidence for this claim and proves nonfillability for a substantial special family, namely certain tight structures with k=1k=1 and r1=(α+1)/(2α+1)r_1=(\alpha+1)/(2\alpha+1). The general assertion remains open.

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Paolo Lisca and Andras I. Stipsicz, “Seifert fibered contact three-manifolds via surgery”, arXiv:math/0307341 (2004).

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