Bridge trisections in \mathbb{CP}^2 and the Thom conjecture

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.1571MaRDI QIDQ6304698arXivFDO

Authors Peter Lambert-Cole

Publication date 26 July 2018

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/GT.2020.24.1571

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

arXiv classification

math.GT

Abstract: In this paper, we develop new techniques for understanding surfaces in $mathbb{CP}^2$ via bridge trisections. Trisections are a novel approach to smooth 4-manifold topology, introduced by Gay and Kirby, that provide an avenue to apply 3-dimensional tools to 4-dimensional problems. Meier and Zupan subsequently developed the theory of bridge trisections for smoothly embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds. The main application of these techniques is a new proof of the Thom conjecture, which posits that algebraic curves in $mathbb{CP}^2$ have minimal genus among all smoothly embedded, oriented surfaces in their homology class. This new proof is notable as it completely avoids any gauge theory or pseudoholomorphic curve techniques.

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