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Lambert-Cole, Peter

Bridge trisections in \(\mathbb{CP}^2\) and the Thom conjecture. (English) Zbl 07256611

Geom. Topol. 24, No. 3, 1571-1614 (2020).
Summary: We develop new techniques for understanding surfaces in \(\mathbb{CP}^2\) via bridge trisections. Trisections are a novel approach to smooth \(4\)-manifold topology, introduced by Gay and Kirby, that provide an avenue to apply \(3\)-dimensional tools to \(4\)-dimensional problems. Meier and Zupan subsequently developed the theory of bridge trisections for smoothly embedded surfaces in \(4\)-manifolds. The main application of these techniques is a new proof of the Thom conjecture, which posits that algebraic curves in \(\mathbb{CP}^2\) have minimal genus among all smoothly embedded, oriented surfaces in their homology class. This new proof is notable as it completely avoids any gauge theory or pseudoholomorphic curve techniques.

Cited in 11 Documents

MSC:

57K40 General topology of 4-manifolds
57R17 Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension
57R40 Embeddings in differential topology

Keywords:

Thom conjecture; 4-manifolds; bridge trisections; minimal genus
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