Serre-Taubes duality for pseudoholomorphic curves

dc.creatorSmith, Ivan
dc.date2001-06-26
dc.date2001-07-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:42:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:42:19Z
dc.descriptionAccording to Taubes, the Gromov invariants of a symplectic four-manifold X with b_+ > 1 satisfy the duality Gr(A) = +/- Gr(K-A), where K is Poincare dual to the canonical class. Extending joint work with Simon Donaldson in math.SG/0012067, we interpret this result in terms of Serre duality on the fibres of a Lefschetz pencil, by proving an analogous symmetry for invariants counting sections of associated bundles of symmetric products. Using similar methods we give a new proof of an existence theorem for symplectic surfaces in four-manifolds with b_+ = 1 and b_1 = 0. This reproves another theorem due to Taubes: two symplectic homology projective planes with negative canonical class and equal volume are symplectomorphic.
dc.description52 pages, no figures; Section 5 has been re-written to include some additional motivation for the main conjecture (cf. Theorem 1.2)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106220
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106220
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/61733
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subject53D35;57R17
dc.titleSerre-Taubes duality for pseudoholomorphic curves
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