Rational surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds with one basic class

DOI10.2140/AGT.2002.2.391MaRDI QIDQ1597787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ronald Fintushel, Ronald Stern, Jongil Park

Publication date 3 June 2002

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202195, https://eudml.org/doc/121969, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-19.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

four-manifoldNoether linesrational blowdownSeiberg-Witten invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: We present constructions of simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds which have (up to sign) one basic class and which fill up the geographical region between the half-Noether and Noether lines.

Review text

This paper gives constructions of simply connected symplectic four-manifolds which have (up to sign) one basic class and which satisfy \(0<\chi(X)-3\leq c_{1}^{2} (X) \leq 2\chi(X)-6\), where \(\chi(X)=(e(X)+\text{sign}(X))/4\) is the holomorphic Euler characteristic of \(X\), \(e(X)\) the Euler characteristic and \(\text{sign}(X)\) the signature. This fills in the region between the half-Noether and Noether lines. The construction is based on a suitable fiber connected sum of two rational surfaces which contain configurations of curves \(C_{n}\) which may be rationally blowdown. Such configuration contains a collection of \(2\)-spheres \(S_{0},\ldots, S_{n-2}\) such that \(S_{0}^{2}=-(n+2)\), \(S_{j}^{2}=-2\) for \(j>0\) and \(S_{j} \cdot S_{j+1}=1\). The key result on which the computation of the Seiberg-Witten classes of the constructed four-manifolds is based [\textit{R. Fintushel} and \textit{R. J. Stern}, J. Differ. Geom. 46, No. 2, 181-235 (1997; Zbl 0896.57022)] establishes that the process of rational blowdown kills most of the basic classes.

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• Unchaining surgery and topology of symplectic 4-manifolds
• The canonical class of a symplectic 4-manifold
• A NOTE ON INDECOMPOSABLE 4-MANIFOLDS
• The symplectic topology of some rational homology balls
• On a class of symplectic 4-orbifolds with vanishing canonical class
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• Symplectic Rational Blow-down Along Seifert Fibered 3-Manifolds
• Symplectic rational blow-ups on rational 4-manifolds
• Geography of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and rational blowdowns

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