Stein surfaces as open subsets of C^2

DOI10.4310/JSG.2005.V3.N4.A4zbMATH Open1118.32011arXivmath/0501509MaRDI QIDQ862192FDOQ862192

Robert E. Gompf

Publication date: 5 February 2007

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

Abstract: An open subset U of a complex surface can be topologically perturbed to yield an open subset whose inherited complex structure is Stein, if and only if U is homeomorphic to the interior of a handlebody whose handles all have index equal or less than 2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501509

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory4-manifoldsStein surfaceexotic spheressurgery and handlebodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein spaces (32E10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60) Stein manifolds (32Q28) Complex manifolds as subdomains of Euclidean space (32Q35)

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• Creating Stein surfaces by topological isotopy
• Topologically trivial proper 2-knots
• Small exotic Stein manifolds
• The generalized Oka-Grauert principle for 1-convex manifolds
• On the Stein framing number of a knot
• Casson towers and filtrations of the smooth knot concordance group

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