Stein fillings of planar open books


Abstract in English

We prove that if a contact manifold $(M,xi)$ is supported by a planar open book, then Euler characteristic and signature of any Stein filling of $(M,xi)$ is bounded. We also prove a similar finiteness result for contact manifolds supported by spinal open books with planar pages. Moving beyond the geography of Stein fillings, we classify fillings of some lens spaces.

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