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Pseudoholomorphic tori in the Kodaira-Thurston manifold

Symplectic Geometry 2015-12-23 v3 Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry

Abstract

The Kodaira-Thurston manifold is a quotient of a nilpotent Lie group by a cocompact lattice. We compute the family Gromov-Witten invariants which count pseudoholomorphic tori in the Kodaira-Thurston manifold. For a fixed symplectic form the Gromov-Witten invariant is trivial so we consider the twistor family of left-invariant symplectic forms which are orthogonal for some fixed metric on the Lie algebra. This family defines a loop in the space of symplectic forms. This is the first example of a genus one family Gromov-Witten computation for a non-K\"ahler manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1205.1239,
  title  = {Pseudoholomorphic tori in the Kodaira-Thurston manifold},
  author = {Jonathan David Evans and Jarek Kędra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1239},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

46 pages; v2 added some references and explanation, v3 couple of typos corrected. To appear in Compositio Mathematica