I will discuss how to build small symplectic caps for contact manifolds as a step in building small closed symplectic 4-manifolds. As an application of the construction, I will give explicit handlebody descriptions of symplectic embeddings of rational homology balls into ℂP2.
This is joint work with Hyunki Min, Lisa Piccirillo, and Agniva Roy.
This video is part of the Institute for Advanced Study‘s Symplectic geometry seminar.
