## Geometry & Topology

### Pseudoholomorphic punctured spheres in $\mathbb{R} \times (S^{1}\times S^{2})$: Moduli space parametrizations

Clifford Henry Taubes

#### Abstract

This is the second of two articles that describe the moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic, multiply punctured spheres in $ℝ×(S1×S2)$ as defined by a certain natural pair of almost complex structure and symplectic form. The first article in this series described the local structure of the moduli spaces and gave existence theorems. This article describes a stratification of the moduli spaces and gives explicit parametrizations for the various strata.

#### Article information

Source
Geom. Topol., Volume 10, Number 4 (2006), 1855-2054.

Dates
Accepted: 25 October 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513799796

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/gt.2006.10.1855

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2284051

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1161.53075

#### Citation

Taubes, Clifford Henry. Pseudoholomorphic punctured spheres in $\mathbb{R} \times (S^{1}\times S^{2})$: Moduli space parametrizations. Geom. Topol. 10 (2006), no. 4, 1855--2054. doi:10.2140/gt.2006.10.1855. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513799796

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