Smooth structure of some symplectic surfaces

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1008719776MaRDI QIDQ5954601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Vidussi

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103216

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: In this note we present a new definition of the 4-manifold admitting inequivalent symplectic structures constructed by McMullen-Taubes which leads to the identification of a new symplectic structure. We prove moreover that it is diffeomorphic to one of the link surgery manifolds introduced by Fintushel-Stern.

Review text

\textit{C. T. McMullen} and \textit{C. H. Taubes} [Math. Res. Lett. 6, No. 5-6, 681-696 (1999; Zbl 0964.53051)] gave the first example of a simply connected smooth 4-manifold which admits two inequivalent symplectic structures, using a cut-and-paste procedure involving a particular 4-component link \(K\subset S^3\) and four copies of the rational elliptic surface \(E(1)\). Their construction bears a resemblance to another cut-and-paste procedure, the link surgery of \textit{R. Fintushel} and \textit{R. J. Stern} [Invent. Math. 134, No. 2, 363-400 (1998; Zbl 0914.57015)], whose parameters include the choice of a link in \(S^3\). In this paper, the author shows that indeed the McMullen-Taubes manifold is diffeomorphic to the manifold obtained by performing Fintushel-Stern link surgery to \(E(1)\) using the link \(K\). In addition, making explicit this correspondence has the interesting consequence of giving, in the last section of the paper, a new symplectic structure on this manifold.

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