%0 Journal Article
%T Explicit concave fillings of contact three-manifolds
%A David T. Gay
%J Mathematics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1017/S0305004102006291
%X In this paper we give explicit, handle-by-handle constructions of concave symplectic fillings of all closed, oriented contact 3-manifolds. These constructions combine recent results of Giroux relating contact structures and open book decompositions of 3-manifolds, earlier results of the author on attaching 4-dimensional symplectic 2-handles along transverse links, and some tricks with mapping class groups of compact surfaces with non-empty boundary.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0104059v3