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Relative Symplectic Caps, 4-Genus And Fibered Knots

Symplectic Geometry 2015-03-20 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove relative versions of the symplectic capping theorem and sufficiency of Giroux's criterion for Stein fillability and use these to study the 4-genus of knots.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4895,
  title  = {Relative Symplectic Caps, 4-Genus And Fibered Knots},
  author = {Siddhartha Gadgil and Dheeraj Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4895},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Sign error in (symplectic) convexity criterion for disk bundles is fixed