Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Positive-definite symplectic four-manifolds

We give new constraints on the topology of symplectic four-manifolds using invariants from Heegaard Floer homology. In particular, we will prove that certain simply-connected four-manifolds with positive-definite intersection forms cannot admit symplectic structures. This is joint work with Tye Lidman.

Date & Time

December 07, 2015 | 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Location

Simonyi Hall 101

Affiliation

Member, School of Mathematics

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Workshop site: /math/ffcs/agenda