Immersions of surfaces in spin\(^{c}\)-manifolds with a generic positive spinor (Q1770913)

Given an almost complex structure \(J\) on a \(4\)-manifold \(M^4\), one can always choose a Riemannian metric \(g\) compatible with \(J\) and treat \((M^4,g,J)\) as a spin\(^c\)-structure on \(M^4\) with a fixed smooth unit section \(\psi\) of its positive half spinor bundle (\(M^4\) endowed with a spin\(^c\)-structure and such a section \(\psi\) will be called a ``framed spin\(^c\)-structure'' henceforth). They are thus a natural generalisation of an almost complex surface and have the advantage of existing on any orientable \(4\)-manifold. The authors define and discuss totally real and pseudoholomorphic immersions of real surfaces in such a framed spin\(^c\)-structure. In particular, they describe all pseudoholomorphic immersions of oriented closed real surfaces in the \(4\)-sphere with a standard framed spin\(^c\)-structure as images of complex projective lines. [A corrected reprint is announced in Zbl 1067.53037.]