Simply-connected irreducible 4-manifolds with no symplectic structures

DOI10.1007/S002220050230MaRDI QIDQ1127750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zoltán Szabó

Publication date 14 February 1999

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s002220050230

zbMATH Keywords

intersection formirreducible manifoldSeiberg-Witten invariantsmooth 4-manifoldsymplectic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Review text

It is well known that each simply connected smooth 4-manifold \(X\) can be decomposed as \(X=X_1 \# \dots \# X_n\) where all \(X_i\) are irreducible (i.e.: \(X_i=Y_i \# Z_i\) implies either \(Y_i\) or \(Z_i\) to be a homotopy 4-sphere). Moreover, results of \textit{R. E. Gompf} and \textit{T. S. Mrowka} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 138, No. 1, 61-111 (1993; Zbl 0805.57012)] prove that it is not possible to assume that either \(X_i\) or \(\overline X_i\) have complex structure. On the other hand, the so-called ``Minimal Conjecture [\textit{C. H. Taubes}, I. International Press Lectures, UC Irvine (March 1996)] and \textit{D. Kotschick} [Astérisque 241, Exp. No. 812, 195-220 (1997; Zbl 0882.57026)] states that each \(X_i\) may be assumed to be a symplectic 4-manifold with the symplectic and the oppposite orientations allowed. The present paper disproves the above conjecture, by producing -- via logarithmic transformations along embedded tori of self-intersection 0 -- a family of simply connected irreducible 4-manifolds \(X_n\) with odd intersection form so that neither \(X_n\) nor \(\overline X_n\) have symplectic structure. Finally, the construction of counterexamples \(X_n\) is generalized, in order to produce other simply connected irreducible non-symplectic 4-manifolds realizing different homotopy types (including some even intersection forms).

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