The QHB\mathcal{QHB} conjecture for small Seifert fibered LL-spaces

Let Y=Y(2;r1,r2,r3)Y=Y(-2;r_1,r_2,r_3) be a small Seifert fibered space that is also an LL-space. Let QHB\mathcal{QHB} denote the class of small Seifert fibered spaces admitting the relevant rational-homology-ball plumbing description, and let ξcan\xi_{can} be the canonical contact structure.

The QHB\mathcal{QHB} conjecture. If YY admits a symplectic rational homology ball filling, then

YQHBY\in\mathcal{QHB}

and the filled contact structure is ξcan\xi_{can}.

The conjecture would show that, among the small Seifert fibered LL-spaces with e0=2e_0=-2, every symplectic rational homology ball filling arises only in the classified QHB\mathcal{QHB} cases and uses the canonical contact structure. The source states that the authors do not know any example outside QHB\mathcal{QHB} admitting such a filling.

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John B. Etnyre, Burak Ozbagci and Bülent Tosun, “Symplectic rational homology ball fillings of Seifert fibered spaces”, arXiv:2408.09292 (2025).

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