Publications

BOOK

Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces, (with A. I. Stipsicz). Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, Vol. 13, Springer 2004.

BOOK CHAPTER

Lefschetz fibrations, open books, and symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds, Proceedings of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics, EMS Press, Berlin, 2023, 395–412.

ARTICLES 

(44) Unbraided wiring diagrams for Stein fillings of lens spaces, (with M. Bhupal)

(43) A characterization of quasipositive two-bridge knots, to appear in International Journal of Mathematics

(42) Complex vs convex Morse functions and geodesic open books, (with P. Dehornoy) to appear in International Journal of Mathematics

(41) Rational blowdown graphs for symplectic fillings of lens spaces, (with M. Bhupal) to appear in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze

(40) Generalizations of planar contact manifolds to higher dimensions, (with B. Acu and J. B.  Etnyre) Journal of Symplectic Geometry 21 (2023), no. 4, 638-721.

(39) On open books for nonorientable 3-manifolds, Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 84 (2022), no. 1, 56–69.

(38) Minimal number of singular fibers in a nonorientable Lefschetz fibration, (with S. Onaran) Geometriae Dedicata 216 (2022), no. 1, Paper No. 4, 6 pp.

(37) Lefschetz fibrations on nonorientable 4-manifolds, (with M. Miller) Pacific Journal of Mathematics 312 (2021), no.1, 177-202.

(36) Genus one Lefschetz fibrations on disk cotangent bundles of surfaces, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana 36 (2020), no.4, 1149-1166.

(35) Stein and Weinstein structures on disk cotangent bundles of surfaces, Archiv der Mathematik 13 (2019), no.6, 661-670. (see also the correction here)

(34) Trisections of 4-manifolds via Lefschetz fibrations,  (with N. Castro), Mathematical Research Letters 26 (2019), no.2, 383-420.

(33) Canonical contact unit cotangent bundle, (with T. Oba), Advances in Geometry 18 (2018), no.4, 405-424.

(32) Exotic Stein fillings with arbitrary fundamental group, (with A. Akhmedov), Geometriae Dedicata 195 (2018), 265-281.

(31) Fillings of unit cotangent bundles of nonorientable surfaces, (with Y.Li) Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 50 (2018), no.1, 7-16.

(30) Symplectic fillings of lens spaces as Lefschetz fibrations, (with M. Bhupal) J. Eur. Math. Society (JEMS) 18 (2016)no.7, 1515-1535.

(29) Generalized plumbings and Murasugi sums, (with P. Popescu-Pampu) Arnold Math. J. 2 (2016), no.1, 69-119.

(28) On the topology of fillings of contact 3-manifolds, Geom. Topol. Monogr. Vol. 19 (2015), 73-123.

(27) Contact open books with exotic pages, (with O. van Koert) Arch. Math. (Basel) 104 (2015), no. 6, 551-560.

(26) Canonical contact structures on some singularity links, (with M. Bhupal) Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 46 (2014), no. 3, 576-586.

(25) Singularity links with exotic Stein fillings, (with A. Akhmedov) J. Singul. 8 (2014), 39-49.

(24) Milnor open books of links of some rational surface singularities, (with M. Bhupal) Pacific J. Math. 254 (2011), no. 1, 47-65.

(23) On the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds, Cent. Eur. J. Math. 9 (2011), no. 4, 752-756.

(22) Contact handle decompositions, Topology Appl.158 (2011), no. 5, 718-727.

(21) On the relative Giroux correspondence, (with T. Etgü) Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. 82 (2011), 65-78.

(20) Milnor fillable contact structures are universally tight, (with Y. Lekili) Math. Res. Lett. 17 (2010), no. 6, 1055-1063.

(19) Full Lutz twist along the binding of an open book, (with M. Pamuk) Geom. Dedicata, 147 (2010), 389-396.

(18) On the contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariant, (with T. Etgü) Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 47 (2010), no. 1, 90-107.

(17) Partial open book decompositions and the contact class in sutured Floer homology, (with T. Etgü) Turkish J. Math. 33 (2009), no. 3, 295-312.

(16) Surgery diagrams for horizontal contact structures, Acta Math. Hungar. 120 (2008), no. 1-2, 193-208.

(15) On sections of elliptic fibrations, (with M. Korkmaz) Michigan Math. J. 56 (2008), no. 1, 77-87.

(14) Invariants of contact structures from open books, (with J. B. Etnyre) Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), no. 6, 3133-3151.

(13) Explicit horizontal open books on some Seifert fibered 3-manifolds, Topology Appl. 154 (2007), no. 4, 908-916.

(12) Open books and plumbings, (with J. B. Etnyre) Int. Math. Res. Not. 2006, Art. ID 72710, 17pp.

(11) Explicit horizontal open books on some plumbings, (with T.Etgü) Internat. J. Math.17 (2006), no. 9, 1013-1031.

(10) Embedding fillings of contact 3-manifolds, Expo. Math. 24 (2006), no. 2, 161-183.

(9) An open book decomposition compatible with rational contact surgery, Proceedings of 12th Gokova Geometry -Topology Conference, 2005

(8) A note on contact surgery diagrams, Internat. J. Math. 16 (2005), no. 1, 87-99.

(7) Contact 3-manifolds with infinitely many Stein fillings, (with A. I. Stipsicz) Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), no. 15, 1549-1558.

(6) Commutators, Lefschetz fibrations and signatures of surface bundles over surfaces, (with  H. Endo,  M. Korkmaz,  D. Kotschick,  A. Stipsicz) Topology 41 (2002), no. 5, 961-977.

(5) On the topology of compact Stein surfaces, (with S. Akbulut) Int. Math. Res. Not. 2002, no. 15, 769-782.

(4) Signatures of Lefschetz fibrations, Pacific J. Math. 202 (1) 2002, no. 1, 99-118.

(3) Lefschetz fibrations on compact Stein surfaces, (with S. Akbulut) Geom. Topol. 5 (2001), 319-334.

(2) Minimal number of singular fibers in a Lefschetz fibration, (with M. Korkmaz) Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), no. 5, 1545-1549.

(1) Noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds with genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations, (with A. I. Stipsicz) Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 10, 3125-3128.