Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces

Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces
ISBN-10
366210167X
ISBN-13
9783662101674
Category
Mathematics
Pages
282
Language
English
Published
2013-03-09
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
András Stipsicz, Burak Ozbagci

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.

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