Title: Variation formulas for an extended Gompf invariant,
Abstract: In 1998, R. Gompf defined a homotopy invariant $\theta_G$ of oriented 2-plane
fields in 3-manifolds. This invariant is defined for oriented 2-plane fields
$\xi$ in a closed oriented 3-manifold $M$ when the first Chern class $c_1(\xi)$
is a torsion element of $H^2(M;\mathbb{Z})$. In this article, we define an
extension of the Gompf invariant for all compact oriented 3-manifolds with
boundary and we study its iterated variations under Lagrangian-preserving
surgeries. It follows that the extended Gompf invariant is a degree two
invariant with respect to a suitable finite type invariant theory.