Geometry & Topology, Vol. 8 (2004)
Paper no. 18, pages 701--734.
Orbifold adjunction formula and symplectic cobordisms between lens spaces
Weimin Chen
Abstract.
Each lens space has a canonical contact structure which lifts to the
distribution of complex lines on the three-sphere. In this paper, we
show that a symplectic homology cobordism between two lens spaces,
which is given with the canonical contact structure on the boundary,
must be diffeomorphic to the product of a lens space with the unit
interval. As one of the main ingredients in the proof, we also derive
in this paper the adjunction and intersection formulae for
pseudoholomorphic curves in an almost complex 4-orbifold, extending
the relevant work of Gromov and McDuff in the manifold setting.
Keywords.
Cobordism of lens spaces, orbifold adjunction formula, symplectic 4-orbifolds, pseudoholomorphic curves
AMS subject classification.
Primary: 57R17.
Secondary: 57R80.
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2004.8.701
E-print: arXiv:math.GT/0403395
Submitted to GT on 27 December 2003.
(Revised 20 January 2004.)
Paper accepted 3 May 2004.
Paper published 16 May 2004.
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Weimin Chen
Mathematics Department, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Email: wchen@math.tulane.edu
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