Stein fillable contact 3-manifolds and positive open books of genus one (Q740545)

If \(W\) is a smooth, noncompact \(4\)-manifold, \(J\) is an integrable complex structure on \(W\), and \(\varphi:W\to[0,\infty)\) is a smooth, proper function such that for \(\lambda=-J^*d\varphi\in\Omega^1(W)\) the exact \(2\)-form \(\omega_\varphi=d\lambda\in\Omega^2(W)\) is everywhere non-degenerate, then \((W,J,\varphi)\) is a Stein surface. A contact \(3\)-manifold \((Y,\xi)\) is called Stein fillable and \(\xi\) is a Stein fillable contact structure if it is orientation-preserving diffeomorphic to a pair \((\partial W_c,\xi_{\partial W_c})\), where \(W_c=\varphi^{-1}([0,c])\) is a Stein \(4\)-manifold with boundary, and \(\xi_{\partial W_c}=\ker(\lambda_c)\subset T\partial W_c\) is the \(2\)-plane distribution which is a positive contact structure on the oriented \(3\)-manifold \(\partial W_c\) consisting of the complex lines tangent to \(\partial W_c\), with \(\lambda_c=\lambda_{\mid TW_c}\in\Omega^1(\partial W_c)\) and \(c\in(0,\infty)\). A pair \((\Sigma,h)\) is an abstract open book if \(\Sigma\) is an oriented surface with \(\partial\Sigma\neq\varnothing\) and \(h\) is an element of the group \(\text{Diff}^+(\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\) of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of \(\Sigma\) which restrict to the identity on the boundary. A closed, oriented \(3\)-manifold \(Y_{(\Sigma,h)}=\Sigma\times[0,1]/(p,1)\sim(h(p),0)\cup_\partial\partial\Sigma\times D^2\) is associated to the open book \((\Sigma,h)\) by taking the natural filling of the mapping cylinder of \(h\). Let \(\text{Dehn}^+(\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\subset\text{Diff}^+(\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\) be the monoid of positive, orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the pair \((\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\). If \(h\in\text{Dehn}^+(\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\), then the open book \((\Sigma,h)\) is said to be positive. It is a well known fact that if \(h\in\text{Dehn}^+(\Sigma,\partial\Sigma)\), then \(\xi_{(\Sigma,h)}\) is Stein fillable. In this paper, the author considers the converse problem in case when \(\Sigma\) has connected boundary and \(Y_{(\Sigma,h)}\) is a Heegaard Floer \(L\)-space, that is, \(Y\) is a rational homology \(3\)-sphere such that the rank of the Heegaard Floer group \(\widehat{HF}(Y;\mathbb Z)\) equals the order of the finite group \(H_1(Y;\mathbb Z)\). It is shown that if \(T\) is an oriented, one-holed torus, \(h\in\text{Dehn}^+(T,\partial T)\), and \(Y_{(T,h)}\) is a Heegaard Floer \(L\)-space, then if \(\xi_{(T,h)}\) is Stein fillable then \(h\in\text{Dehn}^+(T,\partial T)\).