Delzant-type classification of near-symplectic toric 4-manifolds

Delzant's theorem for symplectic toric manifolds says that there is a one-to-one correspondence between certain convex polytopes in ... and symplectic toric 2n-manifolds, realized by the image of the moment map. I present proofs of this theorem and the convexity theorem of Atiyah-Guillemin-Sternberg on which it relies. Then, I describe Honda's results on the local structure of near-symplectic 4-manifolds, and inspired by recent work of Gay-Symington, I describe a generalization of Delzant's theorem to near-symplectic toric 4-manifolds. One interesting feature of the generalization is the failure of convexity, which I discuss in detail.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Kaufman, Samuel, 1981-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Victor W. Guillemin.

• Mathematics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33096

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/33096