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Robert E. Gompf
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 68
Citations - 4417
Robert E. Gompf is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Symplectic geometry & Homotopy. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 67 publications receiving 4154 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert E. Gompf include University of California, Berkeley.
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4-manifolds and Kirby calculus
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce surfaces in 4-manifolds complex surfaces and Kirby calculus, a calculus based on handelbodies and Kirby diagrams, which is used for handel bodies and kirby diagrams.
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Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces
TL;DR: In this article, the topology of Stein surfaces and contact 3-manifolds is studied by means of handle decompositions, which correspond to open handlebodies with all handles of index < 2.
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Computer calculation of Witten's $3$-manifold invariant
Daniel S. Freed,Robert E. Gompf +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the path integral of Witten's 2+1 dimensional Chern-Simons theory is shown to be exactly solvable on generalized Seifert spaces, and the exact solution is compared with the asymptotic formula predicted by perturbation theory.