Symplectic Forms and Surfaces of Negative Square
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We introduce an analogue of the inflation technique of LalondeMcDuff, allowing us to obtain new symplectic forms from symplectic surfaces of negative self-intersection in symplectic four-manifolds. We consider the implications of this construction for the symplectic cones of Kähler surfaces, proving along the way a result which can be used to simplify the intersections of distinct pseudoholomorphic curves via a perturbation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006