Non-Isotopic Symplectic Surfaces in Products of Riemann Surfaces

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> Let &Sigma;<em><sub>g</sub></em> be a closed Riemann surface of genus <em>g</em>. Generalizing Ivan Smith's...

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Main Author: Hays, Christopher
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Waterloo 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2917
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Summary:<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> Let &Sigma;<em><sub>g</sub></em> be a closed Riemann surface of genus <em>g</em>. Generalizing Ivan Smith's construction, for each <em>g</em> &ge; 1 and <em>h</em> &ge; 0 we construct an infinite set of infinite families of homotopic but pairwise non-isotopic symplectic surfaces inside the product symplectic manifold &Sigma;<em><sub>g</sub></em> ×&Sigma;<em><sub>h</sub></em>. In particular, we achieve all positive genera from these families, providing first examples of infinite families of homotopic but pairwise non-isotopic symplectic surfaces of even genera inside &Sigma;<em><sub>g</sub></em> ×&Sigma;<em><sub>h</sub></em>.