Stein surfaces as open subsets of C^2

DOI10.4310/JSG.2005.V3.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ862192zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert E. Gompf

Publication date 5 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501509, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jsg/1154467630

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)

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.

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• A complex surface admitting a strongly plurisubharmonic function but no holomorphic functions
• Small exotic Stein manifolds
• Topologically trivial proper 2-knots
• On the Stein framing number of a knot
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