Branched covers along real parts

Wang, Shuguang

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03935-X

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.

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