Symplectic rational homology ball fillings of Seifert fibered spaces
Abstract: We characterize when some small Seifert fibered spaces can be the convex boundary of a symplectic rational homology ball and give strong restrictions for others to bound such manifolds. As part of this, we show that the only spherical $3$-manifolds that are the boundary of a symplectic rational homology ball are the lens spaces $L(p2,pq-1)$ found by Lisca and give evidence for the Gompf conjecture that Brieskorn spheres do not bound Stein domains in C2. We also find restrictions on Lagrangian disk fillings of some Legendrian knots in small Seifert fibered spaces.
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