Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings

By Burak Ozbagci, A. Stipsicz. 2003

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Infinitely many contact 3-manifolds each admitting infinitely many, pairwise non-diffeomorphic Stein fillings are constructed. We use Lefschetz fibrations in our constructions and compute their first homologies to distinguish the fillings.

Subfields: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology

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