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Exact fillings using universal covers in Floer theory

Shahnaz Shamim Shahul
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We study exact fillings of Legendrians and contact manifolds using Floer theory of universal covers. We prove vanishing results on wrapped Floer homology of the universal cover and symplectic (co)homology with $k[π_1]$ coefficients by using lifted versions of Ritter's TQFT operations. We use these results to show that an exact Maslov zero Lagrangian filling of the standard Legendrian $Λ_{std}$ in any Liouville filling of $(S^{2n-1},ξ_{std})$ is diffeomorphic to a ball in dimension at least 5. We show that the existence of a topological simple exact filling $W$ with vanishing symplectic homology for a dynamically convex contact manifold $M^{2n-1}$ reveals information about homotopy groups of $W$ and $M.$ We also strengthen a theorem of Zhou for ADC-contact manifolds as an application of universal covers.

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Shahnaz Shamim Shahul. 2026-10-07. Exact fillings using universal covers in Floer theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10078

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