Small exotic Stein manifolds

  • Selman Akbulut

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
  • Kouichi Yasui

    Kyoto University, Japan

Abstract

It is known that the only Stein filling of the standard contact structure on is . In this paper, we construct pairs of homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic simply connected compact Stein -manifolds, for any Betti number ; we do this by enlarging corks and plugs.

Cite this article

Selman Akbulut, Kouichi Yasui, Small exotic Stein manifolds. Comment. Math. Helv. 85 (2010), no. 3, pp. 705–721

DOI 10.4171/CMH/208