Rational homology balls and Markov numbers

Symplectic fillings of lens spaces were classified by McDuff and Lisca in the early 2000s. A special class of these fillings arise as fillings of lens spaces L(p^2,pq-1), which admit symplectic fillings with vanishing second Betti numbers. In particular, they are symplectic models for rational homology balls B_{p,q}. We study symplectic embeddings of these models into CP2. We show that such embeddings exist if and only if p is a "Markov number" by "elementary" methods. This is joint work with N. Adaloglou, J. Brendel, J. Evans, and F. Schlenk.