Stein 4-manifolds with boundary and contact structures

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 55-66

  Lisca, P ^a   Matic G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjunction inequality; Contact structure; Seiberg Witten invariants; Stein manifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003184129     PISSN: 0016660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-8641(97)00198-3     Document Type: Article

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