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The Geography of Simply-Connected Symplectic Manifolds

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By using the Seiberg-Witten invariant we show that the region under the Noether line in the lattice domain ℝ X ℝ is covered by minimal, simply connected, symplectic 4-manifolds.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, 120-750, Korea

    Mi Sung Cho & Yong Seung Cho

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Cho, M.S., Cho, Y.S. The Geography of Simply-Connected Symplectic Manifolds. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal 53, 265–276 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026270916962

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