## Geometry & Topology

### Pseudoholomorphic maps into folded symplectic four-manifolds

Jens von Bergmann

#### Abstract

Every oriented $4$–manifold admits a stable folded symplectic structure, which in turn determines a homotopy class of compatible almost complex structures that are discontinuous across the folding hypersurface (“fold”) in a controlled fashion. We define folded holomorphic maps, ie pseudoholomorphic maps that are discontinuous across the fold. The boundary values on the fold are mediated by tunneling maps which are punctured $ℋ$–holomorphic maps into the folding hypersurface with prescribed asymptotics on closed characteristics.

Our main result is that the linearized operator of this boundary value problem is Fredholm, under the simplifying assumption that we have circle-invariant folds.

As examples we characterize the moduli space of maps into the folded elliptic fibration $EF(1)$ and we construct examples of degree $d$ rational maps into $S4$. Moreover we explicitly give the moduli space of degree 1 rational maps into $S4$ and show that it possesses a natural compactification.

This aims to generalize the tools of holomorphic maps to all oriented $4$–manifolds by utilizing folded symplectic structures rather than other types of pre-symplectic structures as initiated by Taubes.

#### Article information

Source
Geom. Topol., Volume 11, Number 1 (2007), 1-45.

Dates
Accepted: 9 November 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513799831

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/gt.2007.11.1

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2287918

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1134.32008

#### Citation

von Bergmann, Jens. Pseudoholomorphic maps into folded symplectic four-manifolds. Geom. Topol. 11 (2007), no. 1, 1--45. doi:10.2140/gt.2007.11.1. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513799831

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