Stein \(4\)-manifolds with boundary and contact structures

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00198-3zbMath0978.53122OpenAlexW2080793336MaRDI QIDQ1295235

Paolo Lisca, Gordana Matić

Publication date: 13 February 2002

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-8641(97)00198-3

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariantsSeiberg-Witten theoryStein manifoldscontact structuresadjunction inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Stein spaces (32E10) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

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