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Stein fillability in higher dimensions
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Contact and symplectic structures play prominent role in studying smooth topological properties of manifolds. By seminal work of Borman-Eliashberg-Murphy we know that every almost-contact manifold admits contact structures. Using surgery methods we identify an obstruction for a manifold to admit a Stein fillable contact structure, and apply this obstruction class to understand the Stein fillability property better. This is joint work with Jonathan Bowden and Diarmuid Crowley.
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