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Exotic Stein fillings with arbitrary fundamental group

Geometric Topology 2018-07-11 v2 Algebraic Geometry Complex Variables Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

For any finitely presentable group GG, we show the existence of an isolated complex surface singularity link which admits infinitely many exotic Stein fillings such that the fundamental group of each filling is isomorphic to GG. We also provide an infinite family of closed exotic smooth four-manifolds with the fundamental group GG such that each member of the family admits a non-holomorphic Lefschetz fibration over the two-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1743,
  title  = {Exotic Stein fillings with arbitrary fundamental group},
  author = {Anar Akhmedov and Burak Ozbagci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1743},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

13 pages, Substantially revised and extended from the previous version. The proofs have been streamlined. One new result, Theorem 2, on exotic Lefschetz fibrations added

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