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Record Nr.

UNISA996466536403316

Autore

Auroux Denis

Titolo

Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces [[electronic resource] ] : Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, September 2-10, 2003 / / by Denis Auroux, Fabrizio Catanese, Marco Manetti, Paul Seidel, Bernd Siebert, Ivan Smith, Gang Tian ; edited by Fabrizio Catanese, Gang Tian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-78279-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 354 p. 15 illus.)

Collana

C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; ; 1938

Disciplina

516.3/52

Soggetti

Algebraic geometry

Differential geometry

Functions of complex variables

Group theory

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Complex manifolds

Algebraic Geometry

Differential Geometry

Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces

Group Theory and Generalizations

Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Lefschetz Pencils, Branched Covers and Symplectic Invariants -- Differentiable and Deformation Type of Algebraic Surfaces, Real and Symplectic Structures -- Smoothings of Singularities and Deformation Types of Surfaces -- Lectures on Four-Dimensional Dehn Twists -- Lectures on Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem.

Sommario/riassunto

Modern approaches to the study of symplectic 4-manifolds and algebraic surfaces combine a wide range of techniques and sources of



inspiration. Gauge theory, symplectic geometry, pseudoholomorphic curves, singularity theory, moduli spaces, braid groups, monodromy, in addition to classical topology and algebraic geometry, combine to make this one of the most vibrant and active areas of research in mathematics. It is our hope that the five lectures of the present volume given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, September 2-10, 2003 will be useful to people working in related areas of mathematics and will become standard references on these topics. The volume is a coherent exposition of an active field of current research focusing on the introduction of new methods for the study of moduli spaces of complex structures on algebraic surfaces, and for the investigation of symplectic topology in dimension 4 and higher.