Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces by Burak Ozbagci, András Stipsicz.
Surgery is the most effective way of constructing manifolds. This is especially true in dimensions 3 and 4, where Kirby calculus provides a method for manipulating surgery diagrams. The groundbreaking results of Donaldson (on Lefschetz fibrations) and Giroux (on open book decompositions) now allow o...
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