Stein surfaces as open subsets of \(\mathbb C^2\)

DOI10.4310/JSG.2005.V3.N4.A4zbMath1118.32011arXivmath/0501509MaRDI QIDQ862192

Robert E. Gompf

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501509

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory4-manifoldsStein surfaceexotic spheressurgery and handlebodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Stein manifolds (32Q28) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Stein spaces (32E10) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Complex manifolds as subdomains of Euclidean space (32Q35) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60)

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