Obstructing pseudoconvex embeddings and contractible Stein fillings for Brieskorn spheres

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.07.023zbMATH Open1397.57034arXiv1603.07710OpenAlexW2962989648WikidataQ129465229 ScholiaQ129465229MaRDI QIDQ1669050FDOQ1669050

Authors: Thomas E. Mark, Bülent Tosun 

Publication date: 29 August 2018

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A conjecture due to Gompf asserts that no nontrivial Brieskorn homology sphere admits a pseudoconvex embedding in ${mathbbC}^2$, with either orientation. A related question asks whether every compact contractible 4-manifold admits the structure of a Stein domain. We verify Gompf's conjecture, with one orientation, for a family of Brieskorn spheres of which some are known to admit a smooth embedding in ${mathbbC}^2$. With the other orientation our methods do not resolve the question, but do give rise to an example of a contractible, boundary-irreducible 4-manifold that admits no Stein structure with either orientation, though its boundary has Stein fillings with both orientations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07710

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zbMATH Keywords

Brieskorn sphereStein domaincontractible manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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