The symplectic Thom conjecture

DOI10.2307/121113zbMATH Open0967.53052arXivmath/9811087OpenAlexW2168478714WikidataQ29543165 ScholiaQ29543165MaRDI QIDQ1972070FDOQ1972070

Authors: Zoltán Szabó, Peter Ozsváth 

Publication date: 14 May 2001

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate a relation among Seiberg-Witten invariants which arises from embedded surfaces in four-manifolds whose self-intersection number is negative. These relations, together with Taubes' basic theorems on the Seiberg-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds, are then used to prove the symplectic Thom conjecture: a symplectic surface in a symplectic four-manifold is genus-minimizing in its homology class. Another corollary of the relations is a general adjunction inequality for embedded surfaces of negative self-intersection in four-manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811087

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic manifoldSeiberg-Witten invariantsSpin\(_{\mathbb C}\) structuresymplectic Thom conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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