Branched Shadows and Complex Structures on 4-manifolds
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We define and study branched shadows of 4-manifolds as a combination of branched spines of 3-manifolds and of Turaev’s shadows. We use these objects to combinatorially represent 4-manifolds equipped with Spinc-structures and homotopy classes of almost complex structures. We then use branched shadows to study complex 4-manifolds and prove that each almost complex structure on a 4-dimensional handlebody is homotopic to a complex one.
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