Symplectic topology and extremal rays

DOI10.1007/BF01896262MaRDI QIDQ1308686zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yongbin Ruan

Publication date 19 February 1995

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/58137

zbMATH Keywords

Barlow surfacesFano surfacesGromov theoryMori theorysymplectomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Review text

The topology of the symplectomorphism group is studied by combining two methods: the Gromov theory of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds and the Mori theory of the birational geometry of algebraic 3- folds. The first part of the paper develops on Kähler manifolds a symplectic version of the Mori theory of extremal rays. The core result: For algebraic surfaces Mori extremal rays are symplectic and deformed symplectic extremals. In the second part further details are obtained about the examples of Fano surfaces (nonsingular algebraic varieties with positive first Chern class) and about Barlow surfaces. The paper is composed in a clear and transparent style.

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