Factorizations in SL(2, Z) and simple examples of inequivalent Stein fillings

DOI10.4310/JSG.2015.V13.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2347741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Denis Auroux

Publication date 8 June 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0847

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationsDehn twistscontact 3-manifoldgenus-1 Lefschetz fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We give simple examples of elements of SL(2,Z) admitting inequivalent factorizations into products of Dehn twists. This can be interpreted in terms of inequivalent Stein fillings of a same contact 3-manifold by genus 1 Lefschetz fibrations over the disk.

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