Higher-dimensional contact manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings

Oba, Takahiro

doi:10.1090/tran/7121

Higher-dimensional contact manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings
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Abstract:

For any integer $n \geq 2$, we construct an infinite family of $(4n-1)$-dimensional contact manifolds, each of which admits infinitely many pairwise homotopy inequivalent Stein fillings.

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