Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and stein surfaces /

This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four and three dimensional manifolds, respectively, from a topologist's point of view. The level of the book is appropriate for advanced graduate students.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ozbagci, Burak
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Stipsicz, András
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Budapest : Springer ; János Bolyai Mathematical Society, [2004]
Series:	Bolyai Society mathematical studies ; 13.
Subjects:	Surgery (Topology) Three-manifolds (Topology) Surfaces. Chirurgie (Topologie) Variétés topologiques à 3 dimensions. Surfaces (Mathématiques) Chirurgie (Mathematik) Steiner-Fläche. Differentialtopologie. Kontaktmannigfaltigkeit. Symplektische Mannigfaltigkeit. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Topological Surgeries
Symplectic 4-Manifolds
Contact 3-Manifolds
Convex Surfaces in Contact 3-Manifolds
Spinc Structures on 3- and 4-Manifolds
Symplectic Surgery
Stein Manifolds
Open Books and Contact Structures
Lefschetz Fibrations on 4-Manifolds
Contact Dehn Surgery
Fillings of Contact 3-Manifolds
Appendix: Seiberg-Witten Invariants
Appendix: Heegaard Floer Theory
Appendix: Mapping Class Groups
Bibliography
Index.