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Extending our earlier results, we prove that certain tight contact structures on circle bundles over surfaces are not symplectically semi–fillable, thus confirming a conjecture of Ko Honda.
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 57R57, 57R17
Partially supported by MURST and member of EDGE, Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2000-00101, supported by The European Human Potential Programme
Partially supported by OTKA T034885
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Lisca, P., Stipsicz, A. Tight, not semi–fillable contact circle bundles. Math. Ann. 328, 285–298 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-003-0483-0
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