Isotopy of nodal symplectic spheres in rational manifolds
2013-11
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Isotopy of nodal symplectic spheres in rational manifolds
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In 1985, M. Gromov proved that any symplectic sphere of degree 1 in CP2 is isotopic to an algebraic line. J. Barraud extended Gromov's work to show that any symplectic sphere of degree d in CP2 with only positive ordinary double point singularities is symplectically isotopic to an algebraic curve. In this paper, We imitate Barraud's approach and further extend the result to the nodal symplectic spheres in rational manifolds. We prove that if (M, w) is a rational symplectic 4-manifold, and A a homology class in H2(M, Z) with Kw(A) < 0, then the space of nodal symplectic spheres in the homology class A has only finitely many isotopy classes.
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. November 2013. Major: Mathematics. Advisor: Tian-Jun Li. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 76 pages.
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Chang, Ching-Hao. (2013). Isotopy of nodal symplectic spheres in rational manifolds. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/161575.
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