Genus-decreasing relation of Gromov-Witten invariants for surfaces under blow-up

Using the degeneration formula, we study the change of Gromov-Witten invariants under blow-up for symplectic 4-manifolds and obtain a genus-decreasing relation of Gromov-Witten invariant of symplectic four manifold under blow-up.     

Symplectic submanifolds in special position

By working on the symplectic blow-up, we show that the symplectic divisors produced by Donaldson in [D] may be chosen so that they contain a fixed symplectic submanifold or, in a complementary direction, so that they cut it transversally with a symplectic intersection.     

Constructing infinitely many smooth structures on $3\mathbb{CP}^2 \# n\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^2$

Using Seiberg-Witten theory and rational blow-down procedures of R. Fintushel and R.J. Stern, we construct infinitely many irreducible smooth structures, both symplectic and non-symplectic, on the four-manifold for each integer n lying in the interval . Received: 17 January 2000 / Published online: 18 January 2002     

A Quantum Modification of Relative Chen–Ruan Cohomology

In this paper, by using the de Rham model of Chen–Ruan cohomology, we define the relative Chen–Ruan cohomology ring for a pair of almost complex orbifold(G, H) with H being an almost sub-orbifold of G. Then we use the Gromov–Witten invariants ofG, the blow-up of G along H,to give a quantum modification of the relative Chen–Ruan cohomology ring H*CR(G, H) when H is a compact symplectic sub-orbifold of the compact symplectic orbifold G.     

Orbifold Gromov–Witten Invariants of Weighted Blow-up at Smooth Points

In this paper, one considers the change of orbifold Gromov–Witten invariants under weighted blow-up at smooth points. Some blow-up formula for Gromov–Witten invariants of symplectic orbifolds is proved. These results extend the results of manifolds case to orbifold case.     

The homotopy Lie algebra of symplectomorphism groups of 3-fold blow-ups of the projective plane

By a result of Kedra and Pinsonnault, we know that the topology of groups of symplectomorphisms of symplectic 4-manifolds is complicated in general. However, in all known (very specific) examples, the rational cohomology rings of symplectomorphism groups are finitely generated. In this paper, we compute the rational homotopy Lie algebra of symplectomorphism groups of the 3-point blow-up of the projective plane (with an arbitrary symplectic form) and show that in some cases, depending on the sizes of the blow-ups, it is infinite dimensional. Moreover, we explain how the topology is generated by the toric structures one can put on the manifold. Our method involve the study of the space of almost complex structures compatible with the symplectic structure and it depends on the inflation technique of Lalonde–McDuff.     

The Second Type Singularities of Symplectic and Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flows

This paper mainly deals with the type II singularities of the mean curvature flow from a symplectic surface or from an almost calibrated Lagrangian surface in a Kähler surface. The relation between the maximum of the Kähler angle and the maximum of |H|² on the limit flow is studied. The authors also show the nonexistence of type II blow-up flow of a symplectic mean curvature flow which is normal flat or of an almost calibrated Lagrangian mean curvature flow which is flat.     

The Lefschetz property, formality and blowing up in symplectic geometry

In this paper we study the behaviour of the Lefschetz property under the blow-up construction. We show that it is possible to reduce the dimension of the kernel of the Lefschetz map if we blow up along a suitable submanifold satisfying the Lefschetz property. We use this, together with results about Massey products, to construct compact nonformal symplectic manifolds satisfying the Lefschetz property.

     

On the geography of symplectic 6-manifolds

The article investigates the geography of closed, connected and simply connected, six-dimensional manifolds. It is proved that any triple of integers satisfying some necessary arithmetical restrictions occurs as the Chern triple of such a manifold. The main tools used for producing the examples are the symplectic connected sum and the symplectic blow-up. Received: 28 May 1998 / Revised version: 22 January 1999     

On Seshadri Constants of Canonical Bundles of Compact Complex Hyperbolic Spaces

Upper and lower bounds for the Seshadri constants of canonical bundles of compact hyperbolic spaces are given in terms of metric invariants. The lower bound is obtained by carrying out the symplectic blow-up construction for the Poincaré metric, and the upper bound is obtained by a convexity-type argument.     

Nonexistence of Blow-up Flows for Symplectic and Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flows

In this paper we mainly study the relation between $|A|^2, |H|^2$ and cosα (α is the Kähler angle) of the blow up flow around the type II singularities of a symplectic mean curvature flow. We also study similar property of an almost calibrated Lagrangian mean curvature flow. We show the nonexistence of type II blow-up flows for a symplectic mean curvature flow satisfying $|A|^2≤λ|H|^2$ and $cosα≥δ>1-\frac{1}{2λ}(½≤α≤ 2)$, or for an almost calibrated Lagrangian mean curvature flow satisfying $|A|^2≤λ|H|^2$ and $cosθ≥δ>max\ {0,1-\frac{1}{λ}}(\frac34≤λ≤ 2)$, where θ is the Lagrangian angle.     

Restrictions on symplectic fibrations

Moduli spaces of stable pseudoholomorphic curves can be defined parametrically, i.e., over total spaces of symplectic fibrations. This imposes several restrictions on the spectral sequence of a symplectic fibration. We prove, among others, that under certain assumptions the spectral sequence collapses at E₂. In the appendix, we prove nontriviality of certain Gromov-Witten invariant for blow-ups. As an application we obtain that any Hamiltonian fibration with the blow-up of  along four dimensional submanifold as a fibre c-splits. That is its spectral sequence collapses.     

On the concentration properties for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a Stark potential

In this paper, we study blow-up solutions of the Cauchy problem to the L2 critical nonlinear Schrdinger equation with a Stark potential. Using the variational characterization of the ground state for nonlinear Schrdinger equation without any potential, we obtain some concentration properties of blow-up solutions, including that the origin is the blow-up point of the radial blow-up solutions, the phenomenon of L2-concentration and rate of L2-concentration of blow-up solutions.     

Symplectic resolutions, Lefschetz property and formality

We introduce a method to resolve a symplectic orbifold(M,ω) into a smooth symplectic manifold . Then we study how the formality and the Lefschetz property of are compared with that of (M,ω). We also study the formality of the symplectic blow-up of (M,ω) along symplectic submanifolds disjoint from the orbifold singularities. This allows us to construct the first example of a simply connected compact symplectic manifold of dimension 8 which satisfies the Lefschetz property but is not formal, therefore giving a counter-example to a conjecture of Babenko and Taimanov.     

Simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds with <Emphasis Type="Italic">b</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript><Superscript>+</Superscript>=1 and <Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis><Subscript>1</Subscript><Superscript>2</Superscript>=2

In this article we construct a new simply connected symplectic 4-manifold with b₂⁺=1 and c₁²=2 which is homeomorphic, but not diffeomorphic, to a rational surface by using rational blow-down technique. As a corollary, we conclude that a rational surface admits an exotic smooth structure. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 53D05, 14J26, 57R55, 57R57     

Blow up behavior for a semilinear parabolic equation with localized source

In this paper, we investigate the blow-up behavior of solutions of a parabolic equation with localized reactions. We completely classify blow-up solutions into the total blow-up case and the single point blow-up case, and give the blow-up rates of solutions near the blow-up time which improve or extend previous results of several authors. Our proofs rely on the maximum principle, a variant of the eigenfunction method and an initial data construction method.     

A degenerate parabolic system with nonlocal boundary condition

In this article, we investigate the blow-up properties of the positive solutions to a degenerate parabolic system with nonlocal boundary condition. We give the criteria for finite time blow-up or global existence, which shows the important influence of nonlocal boundary. And then we establish the precise blow-up rate estimate for small weighted nonlocal boundary.     

Blow-up and pattern formation in hyperbolic models for chemotaxis in 1-D

In this paper we study finite time blow-up of solutions of a hyperbolic model for chemotaxis. Using appropriate scaling this hyperbolic model leads to a parabolic model as studied by Othmer and Stevens (1997) and Levine and Sleeman (1997). In the latter paper, explicit solutions which blow-up in finite time were constructed. Here, we adapt their method to construct a corresponding blow-up solution of the hyperbolic model. This construction enables us to compare the blow-up times of the corresponding models. We find that the hyperbolic blow-up is always later than the parabolic blow-up. Moreover, we show that solutions of the hyperbolic problem become negative near blow-up. We calculate the zero-turning-rate time explicitly and we show that this time can be either larger or smaller than the parabolic blow-up time. The blow-up models as discussed here and elsewhere are limiting cases of more realistic models for chemotaxis. At the end of the paper we discuss the relevance to biology and exhibit numerical solutions of more realistic models.     

Immersions in a symplectic manifold

In this paper we give a homotopy classification of symplectic isometric immersions following Gromov’sh-principle theorem.