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The Adjunction Inequality for Weyl-Harmonic Maps

Differential Geometry 2020-02-25 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study an analog of minimal surfaces called Weyl-minimal surfaces in conformal manifolds with a Weyl connection (M4,c,D)(M^4,c,D). We show that there is an Eells-Salamon type correspondence between nonvertical J\mathcal{J}-holomorphic curves in the weightless twistor space and branched Weyl-minimal surfaces. When (M,c,J)(M,c,J) is conformally almost-Hermitian, there is a canonical Weyl connection. We show that for the canonical Weyl connection, branched Weyl-minimal surfaces satisfy the adjunction inequality \begin{equation}\label{adj} \chi(T_f\Sigma)+\chi(N_f\Sigma) \le \pm c_1(f^*T^{(1,0)}M). \end{equation} The ±J\pm J-holomorphic curves are automatically Weyl-minimal and satisfy the corresponding equality.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05920,
  title  = {The Adjunction Inequality for Weyl-Harmonic Maps},
  author = {Robert Ream},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05920},
  year   = {2020}
}
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