Positive 2-spheres in 4-manifolds of signature (1,n)

DOI10.2140/PJM.1993.160.245zbMATH Open0778.57011OpenAlexW2023910565MaRDI QIDQ689741FDOQ689741

Authors: Kazunori Kikuchi 

Publication date: 17 November 1993

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102624216

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zbMATH Keywords

signaturehomology classdefinite intersection forms of smooth 4-manifoldspositive homology classes of rational surfacesrepresented by a smoothly embedded 2-sphererepresented by smooth rational curvessmooth 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J99) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

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