Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces

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Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces

Burak Ozbagci, András I. Stipsicz

(Bolyai Society mathematical studies, 13)

Springer , János Bolyai Mathematical Society, c2004

  • : Berlin
  • : Budapest

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four- and three-dimensional manifolds from a topologist's point of view. In it, two main issues are addressed: what kind of sympletic and contact structures we can construct via surgery theory and what kind of sympletic and contact structures are not allowed via gauge theory and the newly invented Heegaard-Floer theory.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Topological Surgeries.- 3. Symplectic 4-Manifolds.- 4. Contact 3-Manifolds.- 5. Convex Surfaces in Contact 3-Manifolds.- 6. Spinc Structures on 3- and 4-Manifolds.- 7. Symplectic Surgery.- 8. Stein Manifolds.- 9. Open Books and Contact Structures.- 10. Lefschetz Fibrations on 4-Manifolds.- 11. Contact Dehn Surgery.- 12. Fillings of Contact 3-Manifolds.- 13. Appendix: Seiberg-Witten Invariants.- 14. Appendix: Heegaard Floer Theory.- 15. Appendix: Mapping Class Groups.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA70028562
  • ISBN
    • 3540229442
    • 963945303X
  • LCCN
    2004110893
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin,Budapest
  • Pages/Volumes
    281 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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