Infinitely many small exotic Stein fillings

DOI10.4310/JSG.2014.V12.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ2347210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Selman Akbulut, Kouichi Yasui

Publication date 27 May 2015

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1053

zbMATH Keywords

exotic Stein fillingsStein 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein spaces (32E10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that there exist infinitely many simply connected compact Stein 4-manifolds with b_2=2 such that they are all homeomorhic but mutually non-diffeomorphic, and they are Stein fillings of the same contact 3-manifold on their boundaries. We also describe their handlebody pictures.

Review text

Stein 4-manifolds enjoy some rigidity properties which make them interesting in the study of the topology of 4-manifolds. In particular, it is a challenging problem to identify Stein 4-manifolds which are homeomorphic but mutually non-diffeomorphic. In the present paper, the authors construct infinitely many simply connected compact Stein 4-manifolds with second Betti number \(b_2=2\), which are all homeomorphic but mutually non-diffeomorphic. Furthermore, all the constructed Stein 4-manifolds are exotic \textsl{Stein fillings} of a common contact 3-manifolds, i.e., they are all bounded by the same contact 3-manifold.

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