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In this paper we present the Braid Monodromy Type (BMT) of curves and surfaces. The BMT can distinguish between non-isotopic curves; between different families of surfaces of general type; between connected components of moduli space of surfaces finer than Sieberg-Witten invariants; and between symplectic 4-manifolds.
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Teicher, M. (2002). Braid Monodromy Type Invariants of Surfaces and 4-Manifolds. In: Libgober, A., Tibăr, M. (eds) Trends in Singularities. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8161-6_10
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