Title: Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and stein surfaces
Description: This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four and three dimensional manifolds, respectively, from a topologist's point of view. The level of the book is appropriate for advanced graduate students.
Subjects: Surfaces, Kontaktmannigfaltigkeit, Steiner-Fläche, Variétés topologiques à 3 dimensions, Chirurgie <Mathematik>, Symplektische Mannigfaltigkeit, Differentialtopologie, Chirurgie (Topologie), Three-manifolds (Topology), Surgery (Topology), Surfaces (Mathématiques), Topological manifolds, Topology, Combinatorial analysis, Geometry, Mathematics