Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 ; Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Abstract:
Let be a closed Riemann surface of genus . Generalizing Ivan Smith's construction, we give the first examples of an infinite family of homotopic but pairwise non-isotopic symplectic surfaces of even genera inside the product symplectic -manifolds , where and .