Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces

Description:

This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four and three dimensional manifolds, respectively, from a topologist's point of view. The level of the book is appropriate for advanced graduate students.

subjects: Surfaces,  Kontaktmannigfaltigkeit,  Steiner-Fläche,  Variétés topologiques à 3 dimensions,  Chirurgie <Mathematik>,  Symplektische Mannigfaltigkeit,  Differentialtopologie,  Chirurgie (Topologie),  Three-manifolds (Topology),  Surgery (Topology),  Surfaces (Mathématiques),  Topological manifolds,  Topology,  Combinatorial analysis,  Geometry,  Mathematics