Stein domains and branched shadows of 4-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10711-006-9092-XzbMATH Open1115.57012arXivmath/0504387OpenAlexW2027371560MaRDI QIDQ861674FDOQ861674

Authors: Francesco Costantino 

Publication date: 30 January 2007

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide sufficient conditions assuring that a suitably decorated 2-polyhedron can be thickened to a compact 4-dimensional Stein domain. We also study a class of flat polyhedra in 4-manifolds and find conditions assuring that they admit Stein, compact neighborhoods. We base our calculations on Turaev's shadows suitably "smoothed"; the conditions we find are purely algebraic and combinatorial. Applying our results, we provide examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting "many" positive and negative Stein fillable contact structures, and prove a 4-dimensional analogue of Oertel's result on incompressibility of surfaces carried by branched polyhedra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504387

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zbMATH Keywords

shadowpolyhedra4-manifoldStein domain

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