Smoothly embedded spheres in symplectic 4-manifolds
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Abstract:
We characterize rational or ruled surfaces among all symplectic 4-manifolds by the existence of certain smoothly embedded spheres.References
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Additional Information
- Tian-Jun Li
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
- Email: tli@math.yale.edu
- Received by editor(s): January 31, 1997
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 4, 1997
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 609-613
- MSC (1991): Primary 57Rxx
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04457-3
- MathSciNet review: 1459135