Examples of isolated surface singularities whose links have infinitely many symplectic fillings (Q942960)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5322578
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    Examples of isolated surface singularities whose links have infinitely many symplectic fillings
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5322578

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      Examples of isolated surface singularities whose links have infinitely many symplectic fillings (English)
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      8 September 2008
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      In previous work including [\textit{H. Ohta} and \textit{K. Ono}, Comment. Math. Helv. 74, 575--590 (1999; Zbl 0957.57022) or J. Differential Geom. 69, No.~1, 1--42 (2005; Zbl 1085.53079)] the authors studied minimal symplectic fillings of the links of isolated surface singularities. In [J. Reine Angew. Math. 565, 183--205 (2003; Zbl 1044.57008)], they showed that any minimal symplectic filling of the link of each simple elliptic singularity is deformation equivalent to its resolution or its smoothing. (A simple elliptic singularity is one for which the exceptional divisor in the minimal resolution of the singularity is irreducible, non-singular, and diffeomorphic to a closed oriented surface of genus 1.) In this note they show that for some isolated singularities there are infinitely many topologically distinct types of minimal symplectic fillings. They remark that classifying which isolated surface singularities have finite or infinite minimal symplectic fillings requires further study.
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      isolated surface singularity
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      symplectic filling
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      contact structure
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      link
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