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Embedded surfaces and almost complex structures

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a smooth surface in a 4-manifold X to be pseudoholomorphic with respect to some almost complex structure on X. This provides a systematic approach to the construction of pseudoholomorphic curves that do not minimize the genus in their homology class.

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@article{arxiv.math/9812056,
  title  = {Embedded surfaces and almost complex structures},
  author = {Christian Bohr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9812056},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, LaTeX. To appear in Proc. AMS