Open AccessOn the number of components of the symplectic representatives of the canonical class
Author(s) -
Stefano Vidussi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the european mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.549
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-9863
pISSN - 1435-9855
DOI - 10.4171/jems/97
Subject(s) - mathematics , symplectic geometry , class (philosophy) , pure mathematics , symplectic group , algebra over a field , artificial intelligence , computer science
In this paper we show that there exists a family of simply connected,symplectic 4-manifolds such that the (Poincare dual of the) canonical classadmits both connected and disconnected symplectic representatives. This answersa question raised by Fintushel and Stern.
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