Gompf's conjecture on Brieskorn spheres bounding Stein domains

A Brieskorn sphere is a Brieskorn homology sphere arising from the corresponding Brieskorn construction. A Stein domain in C2\mathbb{C}^2 is a compact domain with Stein structure whose boundary is the associated contact-type hypersurface.

Gompf's conjecture. No nontrivial Brieskorn sphere, with either orientation, arises as the boundary of a Stein domain in C2\mathbb{C}^2.

This conjecture addresses which Brieskorn spheres can occur as boundaries of Stein domains in the standard complex two-space. The authors state that their results leave it open and discuss only partial evidence.

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Primary source

Thomas E. Mark and Bülent Tosun, “On contact type hypersurfaces in 4-space”, arXiv:2008.02755 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1603.07710, arXiv:math/9807188.

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