Infinitely many small exotic Stein fillings
Geometric Topology
2013-04-10 v3 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We show that there exist infinitely many simply connected compact Stein 4-manifolds with b_2=2 such that they are all homeomorhic but mutually non-diffeomorphic, and they are Stein fillings of the same contact 3-manifold on their boundaries. We also describe their handlebody pictures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.1053,
title = {Infinitely many small exotic Stein fillings},
author = {Selman Akbulut and Kouichi Yasui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1053},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
9 pages, 7 figures, revised, a new section added