Relative Symplectic Caps, 4-Genus And Fibered Knots

2012/03/22 by Gadgil, Siddhartha, Kulkarni, Dheeraj · 2 citations
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1203.4895

Abstract

We prove relative versions of the symplectic capping theorem and sufficiency of Giroux's criterion for Stein fillability and use these to study the 4-genus of knots.

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