Symplectic submanifolds and almost-complex geometry
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Symplectic submanifolds and almost-complex geometry
zbMATH Open document ID: 0883.53032
published in: Journal of Differential Geometry
publication date: 1998-03-23T00:00:00Z
review text: This is a fundamental paper on symplectic manifolds and almost complex geometry. The author develops a general procedure for constructing symplectic submanifolds, extending techniques of line bundles, linear systems, and cohomology in complex geometry to general symplectic manifolds. Recall that if \((V,\omega)\) is a symplectic manifold, a submanifold \(W\subset V\) is called symplectic if the restriction of \(\omega\) to \(W\) is nondegenerate. The main result of the paper is the following existence theorem: Let \((V,\omega)\) be a compact symplectic manifold of dimension \(2n\), and suppose that the de Rham cohomology class \([\omega/2\pi]\in H^2(V;\mathbb{R})\) lies in the integral lattice \(H^2(V;\mathbb{Z})\)/Torsion. Let \(h\in H^2(V;\mathbb{Z})\) be a lift of \([\omega/2\pi]\) to an integral class. Then for sufficiently large integers \(k\) the Poincaré dual of \(kh\) in \(H_{2n-2}(V;\mathbb{Z})\) can be realized by a symplectic submanifold \(W\subset V\). As a consequence, the author obtains a general existence theorem for pseudo-holomorphic curves: If \((V,\omega)\) is any compact symplectic manifold, the following hold: (1) \(V\) contains symplectic submanifolds of any even codimension; (2) if \(J\) is a compatible almost complex structure on \(V\), then there are almost complex structures \(J'\) arbitrarily close (in \(C^0\)) to \(J\) such that \(V\) contains \(J'\)-pseudoholomorphic curves.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
zbMATH DE Number: 1026535
zbMATH Keywords: symplectic manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: almost complex geometry
zbMATH Keywords: symplectic submanifolds
author: S. K. Donaldson
reviewed by: Alberto Cavicchioli
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214459407
OpenAlex ID: W1592565003
Wikidata QID: Q115176201
DOI: 10.4310/JDG/1214459407
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1026535