Genus Minimizing in Symplectic 4-Manifolds

Abstract

The authors show that a symplectically embedded surface in a symplectic 4-manifold with b ₂ ⁺ greater than one minimizes genus in its homology class.

Keywords

Generalized Thorn Conjecture / Seiberg-Witten invariant / Symplectic 4-manifolds / 58B15 / 57R40 / O189.3⁺2

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