Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07328-3zbMATH Open1045.57014arXivmath/0308134OpenAlexW1900922902MaRDI QIDQ4452257FDOQ4452257

Authors: Burak Ozbagci, András I. Stipsicz 

Publication date: 12 February 2004

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Infinitely many contact 3-manifolds each admitting infinitely many, pairwise non-diffeomorphic Stein fillings are constructed. We use Lefschetz fibrations in our constructions and compute their first homologies to distinguish the fillings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308134

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zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsLefschetz fibrationsStein fillings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Stein manifolds (32Q28)

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