Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings

Ozbagci, Burak; Stipsicz, András

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07328-3

Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings
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Abstract:

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.

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