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Exactly fillable contact structures without Stein fillings

Jonathan Bowden

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 12 (2012) 1803–1810
Abstract

We give examples of contact structures which admit exact symplectic fillings, but no Stein fillings, answering a question of Ghiggini.

Keywords
Stein filling, Symplectic filling, Contact topology, Symplectic topology
Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 57R17, 53D10
Secondary: 32Q28
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Publication
Received: 15 April 2012
Revised: 4 July 2012
Accepted: 4 July 2012
Published: 25 August 2012
Authors
Jonathan Bowden
Mathematisches Institut
Universität Augsburg
Universitätsstrasse 14
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
Vivatsgasse 7
53129 Bonn
Germany
http://www.math.uni-augsburg.de/de/prof/diff/arbeitsgruppe/bowden