Strongly fillable contact 3-manifolds without Stein fillings (Q2388878)

Every Stein fillable contact \(3\)-manifold is strongly symplectically fillable. The author uses the Ozsváth-Szabó contact invariant to produce an infinite family of examples of contact \(3\)-manifolds that are strongly symplectically fillable but not Stein fillable. The author also shows that these examples do not have symplectic fillings with an exact symplectic form. It is not currently known if the exact fillability notion is different from the notion of Stein fillability.