Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07328-3MaRDI QIDQ4452257zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Burak Ozbagci, András I. Stipsicz

Publication date 12 February 2004

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

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

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)

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.

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