Lectures on four-dimensional Dehn twists

2003/09/01 by Seidel, Paul · 4 citations
#FOS: Mathematics #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0309012

Abstract

These are notes from the 2003 C.I.M.E. summer school "symplectic 4-manifolds and algebraic surfaces". They cover the same material as the author's (by now ancient) Ph.D. thesis.

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