SW ⇒ Gr: From the Seiberg-Witten equations to pseudo-holomorphic curves

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-96-00211-1zbMath0867.53025MaRDI QIDQ5687286

Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date: 11 December 1996

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

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariantssymplectic 4-manifoldssymplectic submanifoldspseudo-holomorphic submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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