Abstract

AbstractWe obtain several results for (iterated) planar contact manifolds in higher dimensions. (1) Iterated planar contact manifolds are not weakly symplectically co-fillable. This generalizes a 3D result of Etnyre [ 14] to a higher-dimensional setting, where the notion of weak fillability is that due to Massot-Niederkrüger-Wendl [ 38]. (2) They do not arise as nonseparating weak contact-type hypersurfaces in closed symplectic manifolds. This generalizes a result by Albers-Bramham-Wendl [ 4]. (3) They satisfy the Weinstein conjecture, that is, every contact form admits a closed Reeb orbit. This is proved by an alternative approach as that of [ 2] and is a higher-dimensional generalization of a result of Abbas-Cieliebak-Hofer [ 1]. The results follow as applications from a suitable symplectic handle attachment, which bears some independent interest.

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