Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces

Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces PDF Author: Burak Ozbagci
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 366210167X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Book 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.