Branched covers along real parts
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Abstract:
It is shown that the double cover of a Kähler surface branched along the fixed point set of an anti-holomorphic involution admits a symplectic structure.References
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Additional Information
- Shuguang Wang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Email: sw@wang.math.missouri.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 22, 1996
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 30, 1996
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 2803-2808
- MSC (1991): Primary 57R55, 57R57, 57N13; Secondary 14P25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03935-X
- MathSciNet review: 1401756