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Elliptic open books on torus bundles over the circle

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As an application of the construction of open books on plumbed 3-manifolds, we construct elliptic open books on torus bundles over the circle. In certain cases these open books are compatible with Stein fillable contact structures and have minimal genus.

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    Tolga Etgü

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Etgü, T. Elliptic open books on torus bundles over the circle. Geom Dedicata 132, 53–63 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-007-9171-7

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