The structure of pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties for a degenerate almost complex structure and symplectic form on S^1 X B^3

Abstract

A self-dual harmonic 2-form on a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold is symplectic where it does not vanish. Furthermore, away from the form's zero set, the metric with the 2-form give a compatible almost complex structure and thus pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties. Such a subvariety is said to have finite energy when the integral over the variety of the given self-dual 2-form is finite. This article proves a regularity theorem for such finite energy subvarieties when the metric is particularly simple near the form's zero set. To be more precise, this article's main result asserts the following: Assume that the zero set of the form is non-degenerate and that the metric near the zero set has a certain canonical form. Then, except possibly for a finite set of points on the zero set, each point on the zero set has a ball neighborhood which intersects the subvariety as a finite set of components, and the closure of each component is a real analytically embedded half disk whose boundary coincides with the zero set of the form.

112 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol2/paper10.abs.html

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