algebraically_overtwisted Towards a good definition of algebraically overtwisted Frédéric Bourgeois Klaus Niederkrüger http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exmath.2009.06.001 Expositiones Mathematicae 28 (2010), no. 1, 85-100. 2010 expo_math.jpg
Symplectic field theory (SFT) is a collection of homology theories that provide invariants for contact manifolds. We give a proof that vanishing of any one of either contact homology, rational SFT or (full) SFT are equivalent. We call a manifold for which these theories vanish "algebraically overtwisted".