Lectures on Contact 3-Manifolds, Holomorphic Curves and Intersection Theory

by Chris Wendl

Intersection theory has played a prominent role in the study of closed symplectic 4-manifolds since Gromov's famous 1985 paper on pseudoholomorphic curves, leading to myriad beautiful rigidity results that are either inaccessible or not true in higher dimensions. Siefring's recent extension of the theory to punctured holomorphic curves allowed similarly important results for contact 3-manifolds and their symplectic fillings. Based on a series of lectures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108497403
• ISBN13: 9781108497404
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"