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Constraints on Basic Classes of Lefschetz Fibrations1040 views
Author
Mak, Kin Hei Anthony, Mathematics - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Mark, Thomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
Abstract
Minimal general type complex surfaces are known to have very simple Seiberg-Witten invariants, whereas the Ozsvath-Szabo invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds can have more varied behavior. The thesis provides a geometric-topological condition on a symplectic 4-manifold, namely containing some particular piece as Lefscehtz subfibration, which guarantees that the Ozsvath-Szabo invariant of the symplectic 4-manifold behaves the same way as the Seiberg-Witten invariants of minimal general type complex surfaces.
Degree
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Keywords
4-manifold invariants; General type complex surfaces; Symplectic 4-manifolds; Lefschetz fibrations
Mak, Kin Hei Anthony. Constraints on Basic Classes of Lefschetz Fibrations. University of Virginia, Mathematics - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2017-07-28, https://doi.org/10.18130/V3KJ6C.