Planar Lefschetz fibrations and Stein structures with distinct Ozsváth-Szabó invariants on corks

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.02.072MaRDI QIDQ2400899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Çağrı Karakurt, Takahiro Oba, Takuya Ukida

Publication date 30 August 2017

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07661

zbMATH Keywords

contact geometryFloer homologyStein manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein manifolds (32Q28) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Floer homology (57R58)

Abstract: Thanks to a result of Lisca and Matic and a refinement by Plamenevskaya, it is known that on a 4-manifold with boundary Stein structures with non-isomorphic Spinc structures induce contact structures with distinct Ozsvath-Szabo invariants. Here we give an infinite family of examples showing that converse of Lisca-Matic-Plamenevskaya theorem does not hold in general. Our examples arise from Mazur type corks.

Review text

According to a theorem of \textit{P. Lisca} and \textit{G. Matić} [Invent. Math. 129, No. 3, 509--525 (1997; Zbl 0882.57008)], if \(W\) is a smooth compact \(4\)-manifold with boundary and \(J\) and \(J'\) are two Stein structures on \(W\) whose associated \(\mathrm{Spin}^c\) structures \({\mathfrak s}\) and \({\mathfrak s}'\) are distinct, then the corresponding contact structures \(\xi\) and \(\xi'\) on \(\partial W\) are not isotopic. In fact, \textit{O. Plamenevskaya} [Math. Res. Lett. 11, No. 4, 547--561 (2004; Zbl 1064.57031)] showed that in such a situation the Ozsváth-Szabó invariants \(c^+(\xi)\) and \(c^+(\xi')\) are distinct elements of \(HF^+(-\partial W)\). In the present paper, Karakurt, Oba and Ukida show that the converse of the Lisca-Matić-Plamenevskaya theorem is false in general. In particular, they construct an infinite family \(\{W_n : n\in{\mathbb N}\}\) of compact contractible \(4\)-manifolds with boundary and pairs of Stein structures \(J_n\) and \(J_n'\) on \(W_n\) such that the associated \(\mathrm{Spin}^c\) structures \({\mathfrak s}_n\) and \({\mathfrak s}_n'\) on \(W_n\) are the same for every \(n\), but the induced contact structures \(\xi_n\) and \(\xi_n'\) on \(\partial W\) have distinct Ozsváth-Szabó invariants for each \(n\). The examples they give are Mazur type manifolds obtained from a symmetric link in \(S^3\) composed of two unknots by putting a dot on one component and attaching a \(0\)-framed \(2\)-handle to the other component. In particular, these examples give an infinite family generalizing the Akbulut cork. The Stein structure \(J_n\) on \(W_n\) is given by choosing a Legendrian representative of the \(2\)-handle. The second Stein structure \(J_n'\) on \(W_n\) is given by generalizing the construction of \textit{T. Ukida} [Topology Appl. 214, 127--136 (2016; Zbl 1354.57030)] of a positive allowable Lefschetz fibration (PALF for short) with planar fibre on \(W_1\) (the Akbulut cork), and then appealing to the correspondence between Stein structures and PALFs proved by \textit{A. Loi} and \textit{R. Piergallini} [Invent. Math. 143, No. 2, 325--348 (2001; Zbl 0983.32027)] (and later by \textit{S. Akbulut} and \textit{B. Ozbagci} [Geom. Topol. 5, 319--334 (2001; Zbl 1002.57062)]). The authors go on to demonstrate that \(\partial W_n\) is irreducible and hyperbolic for each \(n\) and that these \(3\)-manifolds have distinct Casson invariants.

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