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A compendium of pseudoholomorphic beasts in R x (S1 x S2)

Clifford Henry Taubes

math.GTarXiv:math/0212389

Abstract

This article describes various moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves on the symplectization of a particular overtwisted contact structure on S1 x S2. This contact structure appears when one considers a closed self dual form on a 4-manifold as a symplectic form on the complement of its zero locus. The article is focussed mainly on disks, cylinders and three-holed spheres, but it also supplies groundwork for a description of moduli spaces of curves with more punctures and non-zero genus.

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