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    MAZUR MANIFOLDS AND CORKS WITH SMALL SHADOW COMPLEXITIES

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    The special shadow-complexity of #k(S1×S3)\#_k(S^1\times S^3)

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    The special shadow-complexity is an invariant of closed 44-manifolds defined by Costantino using Turaev's shadows. We show that for any positive integer kk, the special shadow-complexity of the connected sum of kk copies of S1×S3S^1\times S^3 is exactly k+1k+1.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure

    Positive flow-spines and contact 3-manifolds

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    We say that a contact structure on a closed, connected, oriented, smooth 3-manifold is supported by a flow-spine if it has a contact form whose Reeb flow is a flow of the flow-spine. We then define a map from the set of positive flow-spines to the set of contact 3-manifolds up to contactomorphism by sending a positive flow-spine to the supported contact 3-manifold and show that this map is well-defined and surjective. We also determine the contact 3-manifolds supported by positive flow-spines with up to 3 vertices. As an application, we introduce the complexity for contact 3-manifolds and determine the contact 3-manifolds with complexity up to 3.Comment: 73 pages, 78 figures. The last subsection was remove
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