Symplectic genus, minimal genus and diffeomorphisms

DOI10.4310/AJM.2002.V6.N1.A7zbMATH Open1008.57024arXivmath/0108227MaRDI QIDQ700539FDOQ700539

Tian-Jun Li, Bang-He Li

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, the symplectic genus for any 2-dimensional class in a 4-manifold admitting a symplectic structure is introduced, and its relation with the minimal genus is studied. It is used to describe which classes in rational and irrational ruled manifolds are realized by connected symplectic surfaces. In particular, we completely determine which classes with square at least -1 in such manifolds can be represented by embedded spheres. Moreover, based on a new characterization of the action of the diffeomorphism group on the intersection forms of a rational manifold, we are able to determine the orbits of the diffeomorphism group on the set of classes represented by embedded spheres of square at least -1 in any 4-manifold admitting a symplectic structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108227

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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