A note on Mazur type Stein fillings of planar contact manifolds (Q492267)

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A note on Mazur type Stein fillings of planar contact manifolds
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    A note on Mazur type Stein fillings of planar contact manifolds (English)
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    20 August 2015
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    A \(2\)-plane field \(\xi\) on a closed, oriented, connected \(3\)-manifold \(M\) is called a contact structure on \(M\) if it is represented as \(\xi=\ker\alpha\) for some \(1\)-form \(\alpha\) on \(M\) satisfying \(\alpha\wedge d\alpha>0\). An open book of \(M\) is called a supporting open book for \(\xi\) if \(d\alpha\) is an area form of each page and \(\alpha>0\) on its binding. A \(4\)-manifold \(X\) is called of Mazur type if it is contractible, the boundary \(\partial X\) is not diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb S^3\), and it admits a handle decomposition consisting of one \(0\)-handle, one \(1\)-handle, and one \(2\)-handle. There is a one-to-one correspondence between contact structures on \(M\) up to isotopy and open books of \(M\) up to an equivalence called positive stabilization. In [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 360, No. 6, 3133--3151 (2008; Zbl 1157.57015)], \textit{J. B. Etnyre} and \textit{B. Ozbagci} defined three invariants of contact structures in terms of open books supporting the contact structures. For a contact 3-manifold \((M,\xi)\), the support genus \(\text{sg}(\xi)\) of \(\xi\) is the minimal genus of a page of a supporting open book for \(\xi\), and the binding number \(\text{bn}(\xi)\) of \(\xi\) is the minimal number of binding components of a supporting open book for \(\xi\) which has a page of genus \(\text{sg}(\xi)\). The authors classified the contact structures \(\xi\) on \(M\) with \(\text{sg}(\xi)=0\) and \(\text{bn}(\xi)\leq 2\). In [J. Gökova Geom. Topol. GGT 1, 92--115 (2007; Zbl 1183.57018)], \textit{M. F. Arikan} also classified those with \(\text{sg}(\xi)=0\) and \(\text{bn}(\xi)=3\). The standard contact structure \(\xi_{\text{st}}\) on \(\mathbb S^3\) is the only Stein fillable contact structure on a homology \(3\)-sphere in their classification. In [Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 151, 45--72 (1990; Zbl 0731.53036)], \textit{Y. Eliashberg} showed that \(D^4\) is a unique Stein filling of \((\mathbb S^3,\xi_{\text{st}})\). In this paper, the author constructs a family of Stein fillable contact \(3\)-manifolds with \(\text{sg}(\xi)=0\) and \(\text{bn}(\xi)=4\) whose Stein filling is not diffeomorphic to \(D^4\). It is shown that there exists a family of contact homology \(3\)-spheres \(\{(M_n,\xi_n)\}\), \({n\geq 1}\) such that (i)\,\(M_1\), \(M_2,\dots\) are mutually not diffeomorphic, (ii)\, each contact structure \(\xi_n\) is Stein fillable and supported by an open book with page a 4-holed sphere, and (iii)\, a Stein filling \(X_n\) of \((M_n,\xi_n)\) is a Mazur type manifold.
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    contractible bounds
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    contact manifolds
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    support genus
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    binding number
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    Casson invariant
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