A note on Stein fillings of contact manifolds
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We construct infinitely many distinct simply connected Stein fillings of a certain infinite family of contact 3-manifolds. Math. Res. Lett. 15 (2008), no. 6, 1127–1132 c © International Press 2008 A NOTE ON STEIN FILLINGS OF CONTACT MANIFOLDS Anar Akhmedov, John B. Etnyre, Thomas E. Mark, and Ivan Smith Abstract. In this note we construct infinitely many distinct simply connected Stein fillings of a certain infinite family of contact 3–manifolds. In this note we construct infinitely many distinct simply connected Stein fillings of a certain infinite family of contact 3–manifolds.
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