Minimality of certain normal connected sums

Authors: TIAN-JUN LI, ANDRAS I. STIPSICZ

Abstract: We show that the normal connected sum of two minimal symplectic 4-manifolds (neither of them rational or ruled) is a minimal symplectic 4-manifold. In the proof we use a symplectic sum formula for Gromov-Witten invariants.

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