Embedded surfaces and almost complex structures
Abstract
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We prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a smooth surface in a 4-manifold X to be pseudoholomorphic with respect to some almost complex structure on X. This provides a systematic approach to the construction of pseudoholomorphic curves that do not minimize the genus in their homology class.
8 pages, LaTeX. To appear in Proc. AMS
8 pages, LaTeX. To appear in Proc. AMS