Topological complexity of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings
Topological complexity of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings
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10.4310/jsg.2016.v14.n1.a7
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2012-12
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R. Baykur;Jeremy Van Horn-Morris
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作者:
R. Baykur;Jeremy Van Horn-Morris
We prove that there exists no a priori bound on the Euler characteristic of a closed symplectic 4-manifold coming solely from the genus of a compatible Lefschetz pencil on it, nor is there a similar bound for Stein fillings of a contact 3-manifold coming from the genus of a compatible open book --- except possibly for a few low genera cases. To obtain our results, we produce the first examples of factorizations of a boundary parallel Dehn twist as arbitrarily long products of positive Dehn twists along non-separating curves on a fixed surface with boundary. This solves an open problem posed by Auroux, Smith and Wajnryb, and a more general variant of it raised by Korkmaz, Ozbagci and Stipsicz, independently.