Symplectic fillings of lens spaces as Lefschetz fibrations (Q726756)
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Symplectic fillings of lens spaces as Lefschetz fibrations (English)
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14 July 2016
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The lens space \(L(p,q)\) is orientation preserving diffeomorphic to the link of the cyclic quotient singularity whose minimal resolution is given by a linear plumbing graph with vertices having weights \(-a_i,\dots,-a_l\), where \(p/q=[a_1,\dots,a_l]\) the Hirzebruch-Jung continued fraction. It is known that any tight contact structure on \(L(p,q)\), in particular the canonical contact structure \(\xi_{\text{can}}\), is supported by a planar open book. If a contact 3-manifold \((Y,\xi)\) is supported by a planar open book \({\mathcal{OB}}_\xi\), then any strong symplectic filling of \((Y,\xi)\) is symplectic deformation equivalent to a blowup of a positive allowable Lefschetz fibration whose boundary is \({\mathcal{OB}}_\xi\). On the other hand, it is also known that every weak symplectic filling of a rational homology sphere can be modified into a strong symplectic filling, and that any minimal symplectic filling of \((L(p,q),\xi_{\text{can}})\) admits a genus-zero positive allowable Lefschetz fibration over \(D_2\). In this paper, the authors give an algorithm to present each minimal symplectic filling of the canonical contact structure on a lens space as an explicit genus-zero positive allowable Lefschetz fibration over the disk. They prove that any minimal symplectic filling of the canonical contact structure on a lens space is obtained by a sequence of rational blowdowns along linear plumbing graphs starting from the minimal resolution of the corresponding cyclic quotient singularity.
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symplectic fillings
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lens spaces
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canonical contact structure
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Lefschetz fibrations
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