Associativity properties of the symplectic sum

DOI10.4310/MRL.1996.V3.N5.A3MaRDI QIDQ5961477zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dusa McDuff, Margaret Symington

Publication date 26 November 1997

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9602002

zbMATH Keywords

4-fold sum4-manifoldsassociativity ruledeformation equivalenceDonaldson invariantssymplectic manifoldssymplectic sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: In this note we apply a 4-fold sum operation to develop an associativity rule for the pairwise symplectic sum. This allows us to show that certain diffeomorphic symplectic $4$-manifolds made out of elliptic surfaces are in fact symplectically deformation equivalent. We also show that blow-up points can be traded from one side of a symplectic sum to another without changing the symplectic deformation class of the resulting manifold.

Review text

The authors use a 4-fold sum operation introduced by the second author to prove an associativity rule for the symplectic sum. Two applications of this result are given:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE1. Let \(E(n)\) be the elliptic surface which is the \(n\)-fold branched cover of \(E(1)= \mathbb{C} P^2 \# 9 \overline {\mathbb{C} P}^2\) along a pair of fibres. Then the manifolds \(E(4) \#_Q \mathbb{C} P^2\) and \(E(3) \#_{T_1}Y\) are symplectically deformation equivalent, where \(Q\) is a quadric curve in \(\mathbb{C} P^2\), \(T_1\) is a torus and \(Y= \mathbb{C} P^2 \#8 \overline {\mathbb{C} P}^2\) along \(T_1\). This result completes those by Stipsicz and Gompf who have shown that they have the same Donaldson invariants and thus are diffeomorphic.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE2. The blow-up points can be traded from one side of a symplectic sum to another without changing the symplectic deformation class.

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