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Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein and Weinstein domains

Symplectic Geometry 2017-03-29 v3 Complex Variables

Abstract

We show that every Stein or Weinstein domain may be presented (up to deformation) as a Lefschetz fibration over the disk. The proof is an application of Donaldson's quantitative transversality techniques.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6176,
  title  = {Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein and Weinstein domains},
  author = {Emmanuel Giroux and John Pardon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6176},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

28 pages. Final version to appear in Gometry and Topology