Anti-self-dual blowups II
Differential Geometry
2025-12-04 v1
Abstract
Let be a closed, oriented four-manifold with , and suppose contains a collection of pairwise disjoint embedded -spheres. We prove that there is a Riemannian metric on such that the Poincare dual of each of these spheres is represented by an anti-self-dual harmonic form. This extends our earlier result for -spheres. The main new ingredient is an application of Eliashberg's -principle for overtwisted contact structures, which we use to construct self-dual harmonic forms on four-orbifolds with prescribed local behaviour near the orbifold singular set.
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@article{arxiv.2512.03352,
title = {Anti-self-dual blowups II},
author = {Vsevolod Shevchishin and Gleb Smirnov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03352},
year = {2025}
}
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26 pages