BRANCHED SHADOWS AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES ON 4-MANIFOLDS

DOI10.1142/S0218216508006683MaRDI QIDQ3602970zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Costantino

Publication date 12 February 2009

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502292

zbMATH Keywords

shadowalmost complex structurebranchingspine4-handlebodyTuraev's reconstruction map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost complex manifolds (32Q60)

Abstract: We define and study branched shadows of 4-manifolds as a combination of branched spines of 3-manifolds and Turaev's shadows. We use these objects to combinatorially represent 4-manifolds equipped with $Spi{n}^c$-structures and homotopy classes of almost complex structures. We then use branched shadows to study complex 4-manifolds and prove that each almost complex structure on a 4-handlebody is homotopic to a complex one.

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