Smooth embeddings with Stein surface images

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTT017MaRDI QIDQ5404504zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert E. Gompf

Publication date 24 March 2014

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1865

zbMATH Keywords

Brieskorn spheresMilnor fiberspseudoconcave holomorphic fillingsStein handlebodiesStein open subsets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein manifolds (32Q28) Domains of holomorphy (32T05) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: A simple characterization is given of open subsets of a complex surface that smoothly perturb to Stein open subsets. As applications, complex 2-space C^2 contains domains of holomorphy (Stein open subsets) that are exotic R^4's, and others homotopy equivalent to the 2-sphere but cut out by smooth, compact 3-manifolds. Pseudoconvex embeddings of Brieskorn spheres and other 3-manifolds into complex surfaces are constructed, as are pseudoconcave holomorphic fillings (with disagreeing contact and boundary orientations). Pseudoconcave complex structures on Milnor fibers are found. A byproduct of this construction is a simple polynomial expression for the signature of the (p,q,npq-1) Milnor fiber. Akbulut corks in complex surfaces can always be chosen to be pseudoconvex or pseudoconcave submanifods. The main theorem is expressed via Stein handlebodies (possibly infinite), which are defined holomorphically in all dimensions by extending Stein theory to manifolds with noncompact boundary.

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