Small exotic Stein manifolds
Geometric Topology
2009-08-18 v2 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
It is known that the only Stein filling of the standard contact structure on S^3 is B^4. In this paper, we construct simply connected exotic compact Stein 4-manifold pairs for any Betti number ; we do this by enlarging corks and plugs.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.3815,
title = {Small exotic Stein manifolds},
author = {Selman Akbulut and Kouichi Yasui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3815},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 17 figures, revised version, to appear in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici