Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, September 2-10, 2003

By Denis Auroux and Marco Manetti

Lefschetz Pencils, Branched Covers and Symplectic Invariants.- Differentiable and Deformation Type of Algebraic Surfaces, Real and Symplectic Structures.- Smoothings of Singularities and Deformation Types of Surfaces.- Lectures on Four-Dimensional Dehn Twists.- Lectures on Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540782788
• ISBN13: 9783540782780
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"