Gompf's conjecture on Brieskorn spheres bounding Stein domains
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 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 .
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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