Small exotic Stein manifolds

DOI10.4171/CMH/208MaRDI QIDQ983904zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Selman Akbulut, Kouichi Yasui

Publication date 13 July 2010

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3815, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_abstract.php?issn=0010-2571&vol=85&iss=3&rank=6

zbMATH Keywords

Stein manifold4-manifoldcorkplug

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: It is known that the only Stein filling of the standard contact structure on S^3 is B^4. In this paper, we construct simply connected exotic compact Stein 4-manifold pairs for any Betti number $b_{2}geq1$; we do this by enlarging corks and plugs.

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