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SW $\Rightarrow $ Gr: From the Seiberg-Witten equations to pseudo-holomorphic curves

Author(s): Clifford H. Taubes
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1996), 845-918.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C07, 53C15
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Clifford H. Taubes
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Email: chtaubes@math.harvard.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-96-00211-1
PII: S 0894-0347(96)00211-1
Received by editor(s): June 26, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 7, 1995
Additional Notes: The author is supported in part by the National Science Foundation
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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