Symplectic rational blow-down along Seifert fibered 3-manifolds

Abstract

We verify that the rational blow-down schemes along certain Seifert fibered 3-manifolds found by the second author, Szabo and Wahl are, in fact, symplectic operations.

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• On the Floer homology of plumbed three-manifolds
• Heegaard Floer homologies and contact structures
• Rational blow-downs and smoothings of surface singularities

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• On tight contact structures with negative maximal twisting number on small Seifert manifolds
• Symplectic surgeries and normal surface singularities