An important class of contact 3--manifolds are those that arise as links of
rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We explicitly
describe symplectic caps (concave fillings) of such contact 3--manifolds. As an
application, we present a new obstruction for such singularities to admit
rational homology disk smoothings.
An important class of contact 3--manifolds are those that arise as links of
rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We explicitly
describe symplectic caps (concave fillings) of such contact 3--manifolds. As an
application, we present a new obstruction for such singularities to admit
rational homology disk smoothings.