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Contact 5-manifolds admitting open books with exotic pages

Geometric Topology 2015-02-24 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We construct a contact 5-manifold supported by infinitely many distinct open books with the identity monodromy and pairwise exotic Stein pages (i.e. pages are pairwise homeomorphic but non-diffeomorphic Stein fillings of a fixed contact 3-manifold), moreover we describe a process of generating infinitely many such examples. In contrast to this result, on each of #nS2×S3\#_{n} S^{2}\times S^{3} and #nS2×~S3\#_{n} S^{2}\tilde{\times} S^{3} (n2)(n\geq 2) we construct infinitely many open books with pairwise exotic Stein pages (and identity monodromy) supporting mutually distinct contact structures.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06118,
  title  = {Contact 5-manifolds admitting open books with exotic pages},
  author = {Selman Akbulut and Kouichi Yasui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06118},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures