Smoothings of singularities and symplectic surgery

DOI10.4310/JSG.2014.V12.N3.A6zbMATH Open1312.53108arXiv1211.6830OpenAlexW2963900119MaRDI QIDQ462178FDOQ462178

Heesang Park, András I. Stipsicz

Publication date: 15 October 2014

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that $C=(C_1,\mathrm{...},C_m)$ is a configuration of 2-dimensional symplectic submanifolds in a symplectic 4-manifold $(X,omega)$ with connected, negative definite intersection graph $Gamm{a}_C$. We show that by replacing an appropriate neighborhood of $cup{C}_i$ with a smoothing $W_S$ of a normal surface singularity $(S,0)$ with resolution graph $Gamm{a}_C$, the resulting 4-manifold admits a symplectic structure. This operation generalizes the rational blow-down operation of Fintushel-Stern for other configurations, and therefore extends Symington's result about symplectic rational blow-downs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6830

zbMATH Keywords

open book decompositionsymplectic 4-manifoldnormal surface singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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