Abstract
Using theorems of Eliashberg and McDuff, Etnyre [4] proved that the intersection form of a symplectic filling of a contact 3-manifold supported by planar open book is negative definite. In this paper, we prove a signature formula for allowable Lefschetz fibrations over D2 with planar fiber by computing Maslov index appearing in Wall's non-additivity formula. The signature formula leads to an alternative proof of Etnyre's theorem via works of Niederkrüger and Wendl [9] and Wendl [14]. Conversely, Etnyre's theorem, together with the existence theorem of Stein structures on Lefschetz fibrations over D2 with bordered fiber by Loi and Piergallini [8], implies the formula.
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