Abstract
We use contact handle decompositions and a stabilization process to compute the cylindrical contact homology of a subcritical Stein-fillable contact manifold with vanishing first Chern class, and show that it is completely determined by the homology of a subcritical Stein-filling of the contact manifold.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1243-1280 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
| Journal | Geometry and Topology |
| Volume | 8 |
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| State | Published - 24 Sep 2004 |
Keywords
- Contact handles
- Cylindrical contact homology
- Holomorphic curves
- Reeb vector field
- Subcritical Stein-fillable contact manifold