On Handlebody Structures of Rational Balls
Geometric Topology
2014-06-09 v1
Abstract
It is known that for coprime integers , the lens space bounds a rational ball, , arising as the 2-fold branched cover of a (smooth) slice disk in bounding the associated 2-bridge knot. Lekilli and Maydanskiy give handle decompositions for each . Whereas, Yamada gives an alternative definition of rational balls, , bounding by their handlebody decompositions alone. We show that these two families coincide - answering a question of Kadokami and Yamada. To that end, we show that each admits a Stein filling of the "standard" contact structure, , on investigated by Lisca.
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@article{arxiv.1406.1575,
title = {On Handlebody Structures of Rational Balls},
author = {Luke Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1575},
year = {2014}
}
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21 pages, 24 figures