English

On Stein fillings of contact torus bundles

Symplectic Geometry 2017-05-17 v2

Abstract

We consider a large family F of torus bundles over the circle, and we use recent work of Li--Mak to construct, on each Y in F, a Stein fillable contact structure C. We prove that (i) each Stein filling of (Y,C) has vanishing first Chern class and first Betti number, (ii) if Y in F is elliptic then all Stein fillings of (Y,C) are pairwise diffeomorphic and (iii) if Y in F is parabolic or hyperbolic then all Stein fillings of (Y,C) share the same Betti numbers and fall into finitely many diffeomorphism classes. Moreover, for infinitely many hyperbolic torus bundles Y in F we exhibit non-homotopy equivalent Stein fillings of (Y,C).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1412.0828,
  title  = {On Stein fillings of contact torus bundles},
  author = {Marco Golla and Paolo Lisca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0828},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages, 10 figures. This preprint version differs from the final version which is to appear in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society