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Convex plumbings and Lefschetz fibrations
David Gay, Thomas E. Mark
We show that under appropriate hypotheses, a plumbing of symplectic surfaces in a symplectic 4-manifold admits strongly convex neighborhoods. Moreover the neighborhoods are Lefsche…
On symplectic caps
David T. Gay, Andras I. Stipsicz
An important class of contact 3--manifolds are those that arise as links of rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We explicitly describe symplectic caps (c…
Symplectic surgeries and normal surface singularities
David T. Gay, Andras I. Stipsicz
We show that every negative definite configuration of symplectic surfaces in a symplectic 4--manifold has a strongly symplectically convex neighborhood. We use this to show that, i…
Symplectic rational blow-down along Seifert fibered 3-manifolds
David T. Gay, Andras I. Stipsicz
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.
Toric structures on near-symplectic 4-manifolds
David T. Gay, Margaret Symington
A near-symplectic structure on a 4-manifold is a closed 2-form that is symplectic away from the 1-dimensional submanifold along which it vanishes and that satisfies a certain trans…