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For oriented surfaces $\Sigma$ with boundary, we consider the infinite-dimensional deformation space of projective structures on $\Sigma$ with nondegenerate boundary, up to isotopies fixing the boundary. We show that this space carries a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Ahmadreza Khazaeipoul , Eckhard Meinrenken

In this paper, we investigate the minimal symplectic fillings of small Seifert 3-manifolds with a canonical contact structure. As a result, we classify all minimal symplectic fillings of small Seifert 3-manifolds satisfying certain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Hakho Choi , Jongil Park

In this article, we construct infinitley many simply connected, nonsymplectic and pairwise nondiffeomorphic 4-manifolds starting from E(n) and applying the sequence of knot surgery, ordinary blowups and rational blowdown. We also compute…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anar Akhmedov

An important class of contact 3--manifolds are those that arise as links of rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We explicitly describe symplectic caps (concave fillings) of such contact 3--manifolds. As an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-24 David T. Gay , Andras I. Stipsicz

We prove that a Weinstein domain symplectically embedded in a closed symplectic manifold always admits symplectic hypersurfaces in its complement, possibly after a deformation. As a consequence, we obtain an obstruction for a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Thomas E. Mark , Bülent Tosun

In the breakthrough paper [V. Mu\~noz, A Smale-Barden manifold admitting K-contact but not Sasakian structure, 2024, 10.4171/JEMS/1496], it is constructed the first example of a simply connected compact 5-manifold (aka.\ Smale-Barden…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Vicente Muñoz , Juan Rojo

A stable generalized complex structure is one that is generically symplectic but degenerates along a real codimension two submanifold, where it defines a generalized Calabi-Yau structure. We introduce a Lie algebroid which allows us to view…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Gil R. Cavalcanti , Marco Gualtieri

We give a new characterization of symplectic surfaces in CP^2 via bridge trisections. Specifically, a minimal genus surface in CP^2 is smoothly isotopic to a symplectic surface if and only if it is smoothly isotopic to a surface in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Peter Lambert-Cole

This article presents the constructions of new infinite families of smooth 4-manifolds with the property that any two manifolds in the same family are homeomorphic and, from their construction, seem to be quite different, but cannot be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ronald Fintushel , Ronald J. Stern

We construct a minimal complex surface of general type with $p_g=0$, $K^2 =4$, and $\pi_1=\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ using a rational blow-down surgery and a $\mathbb{Q}$-Gorenstein smoothing theory. In a similar fashion, we also construct a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Heesang Park

We study symplectic structures on K\"ahler surfaces with p_g = 0. We give an example of a projective surface which admits a symplectic structure which is not compatible with any K\"ahler metric.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-17 Paolo Cascini , Dmitri Panov

The notion of a holomorphically symplectic manifold can be generalized to the singular one. This paper studies the birational contraction maps between symplectic varieties, and then describes the deformation of a symplectic variety which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yoshinori Namikawa

A key question for $4$-manifolds $M$ admitting symplectic structures is to determine which cohomology classes $\alpha\in H^2(M,\mathbb R)$ admit a symplectic representative. The collection of all such classes, the symplectic cone $\mathcal…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Josef G. Dorfmeister , Tian-Jun Li

We show that recent results of Friedl-Vidussi and Chen imply that a symplectic manifold admits a fixed point free circle action if and only if it admits a symplectic circle action and we give a complete description of the symplectic cone in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Jonathan Bowden

We construct a new infinite family of 4-dimensional isolated symplectic singularities with trivial local fundamental group, answering a question of Beauville raised in 2000. Three constructions are presented for this family: (1) as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Gwyn Bellamy , Cédric Bonnafé , Baohua Fu , Daniel Juteau , Paul Levy , Eric Sommers

Extension of symplectic geometry on manifolds to the supersymmetric case is considered. In the even case it leads to the even symplectic geometry (or, equivalently, to the geometry on supermanifolds endowed with a non-degenerate Poisson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. M. Lavrov , O. V. Radchenko

We discuss a particular class of rational Gorenstein singularities, which we call symplectic. A normal variety V has symplectic singularities if its smooth part carries a closed symplectic 2-form whose pull-back in any resolution X --> V…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 A. Beauville

We exhibit many examples of closed symplectic manifolds on which there is an autonomous Hamiltonian whose associated flow has no nonconstant periodic orbits (the only previous explicit example in the literature was the torus T^2n (n\geq 2)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Michael Usher

We prove that every compact complex surface with odd first Betti number admits a locally conformally symplectic $2$-form which tames the underlying almost complex structure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Vestislav Apostolov , Georges Dloussky

We present the various constructions of new symplectic $4$-manifolds with non-negative signatures using the complex surfaces on the BMY line $c_1^2 = 9\chi_h$, the Cartwright-Steger surfaces, the quotients of Hirzebruch's certain…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Anar Akhmedov , Sümeyra Sakallı , Sai-Kee Yeung