Lefschetz pencils and the canonical class for symplectic four-manifolds

Topology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 743-785

  Donaldson, Simon ^a   Smith, Ivan ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lefschetz pencils; Nodal curves; Pseudoholomorphic curves; Seiberg Witten; Symmetric products; Symplectic manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037411488     PISSN: 00409383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00024-1     Document Type: Article

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