Antiflips, mutations, and unbounded symplectic embeddings of rational homology balls

DOI10.5802/AIF.3429zbMATH Open1497.14072arXiv1807.06073OpenAlexW2883831849MaRDI QIDQ2115489FDOQ2115489

Giancarlo Urzúa, Jonathan D. Evans

Publication date: 17 March 2022

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Milnor fibre of a $mathbbQ$-Gorenstein smoothing of a Wahl singularity is a rational homology ball $B_{p,q}$. For a canonically polarised surface of general type $X$, it is known that there are bounds on the number $p$ for which $B_{p,q}$ admits a symplectic embedding into $X$. In this paper, we give a recipe to construct unbounded sequences of symplectically embedded $B_{p,q}$ into surfaces of general type equipped with non-canonical symplectic forms. Ultimately, these symplectic embeddings come from Mori's theory of flips, but we give an interpretation in terms of almost toric structures and mutations of polygons. The key point is that a flip of surfaces, as studied by Hacking, Tevelev and Urz'ua, can be formulated as a combination of mutations of an almost toric structure and deformation of the symplectic form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06073

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiessymplectic geometryMMPalmost toric manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Surfaces of general type (14J29)

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• Simple embeddings of rational homology balls and antiflips
• Isolated hypersurface singularities, spectral invariants, and quantum cohomology

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