The genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00399-9MaRDI QIDQ3138090zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. B. Kronheimer

Publication date 6 December 1993

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9307230

zbMATH Keywords

minimal genusThom conjecturecarried by a smooth algebraic curvehomology class in a complex surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

Abstract: A viable and still unproved conjecture states that, if $X$ is a smooth algebraic surface and $C$ is a smooth algebraic curve in $X$, then $C$ realizes the smallest possible genus amongst all smoothly embedded $2$-manifolds in its homology class. A proof is announced here for this conjecture, for a large class of surfaces $X$, under the assumption that the normal bundle of $C$ has positive degree.

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