Abstract
We study diffeomorphisms of compact, oriented surfaces, developing methods of distinguishing those which have positive factorizations into Dehn twists from those which satisfy the weaker condition of being right-veering. We use these to construct open book decompositions of Stein-fillable –manifolds whose monodromies have no positive factorization.
Citation
Andy Wand. "Factorizations of diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary." Geom. Topol. 19 (5) 2407 - 2464, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2015.19.2407
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