Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein and Weinstein domains (Q520880)

There are two main theorems in this paper (Theorem 1.5 and Theorem 1.10) : Theorem 1.5 says that every Stein domain (a complex submanifold of a complex manifold given by the sublevel set of a smooth psh exhaustion) is deformation equivalent to a Lefschetz fibration over a disc. Theorem 1.10 is a symplectic analogue of this statement for Weinstein domains. Essentially, Theorem 1.5 follows from Theorem 1.7 which asserts the existence of a holomorphic function which is not too big and satisfies some sort of a quantitative transversality property (in the sense that the derivative and the function is not too small). The proof relies on a combination of Hörmander's theorem and a technique of Donaldson. Indeed, one can construct ``peaked'' holomorphic functions/sections of a line bundle by solving a \(\bar{\partial}\)-equation (which is where the psh function is used). Donaldson introduced a technique by which, given enough peak sections, one can construct sections which satisfy any reasonable generic quantitative holomorphic transversality requirement. The proof of Theorem 1.10 is a similar, symplectic version of the aforementioned strategy.