Stabilizations via Lefschetz Fibrations and Exact Open Books Selman Akbulut and M. Firat Arikan

We show that if a contact open book (Σ, h) on a (2n+1)-manifoldM (n ≥ 1) is induced by a Lefschetz fibration π : W → D, then there is a one-to-one correspondence between positive stabilizations of (Σ, h) and positive stabilizations of π. More precisely, any positive stabilization of (Σ, h) is induced by the corresponding positive stabilization of π, and conversely any positive stabilization of π induces the corresponding positive stabilization of (Σ, h). We define exact open books as boundary open books of exact Lefschetz fibrations, and show that any exact open book carries a contact structure. Moreover, we prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence (similar to the one above) between convex stabilizations of an exact open book and convex stabilizations of the corresponding exact Lefschetz fibration. We also show that convex stabilization of exact Lefschetz fibrations produces symplectomorphic manifolds.