Algebraic surfaces and 4-manifolds: Some conjectures and speculations
Algebraic surfaces and 4-manifolds: Some conjectures and speculations
Introduction.Since the time of Riemann, there has been a close interplay between the study of the geometry of complex algebraic curves (or, equivalently, compact Riemann surfaces) and the topology of 2-manifolds.These connections arise from the uniformization theorem, which asserts that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to either …