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1. Geography of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and rational blowdowns

   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8968  

   Baykur, R; Korkmaz, Mustafa; Simone, Jonathan (July 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   We produce simply-connected, minimal, symplectic Lefschetz fibrations realizing all the lattice points in the symplectic geography plane below the Noether line. This provides asymplecticextension of the classical works populating the complex geography plane with holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations. Our examples are obtained by rationally blowing down Lefschetz fibrations with clustered nodal fibers, the total spaces of which are potentially new homotopy elliptic surfaces. Similarly, clustering nodal fibers on higher genera Lefschetz fibrations on standard rational surfaces, we get rational blowdown configurations that yield new constructions of small symplectic exotic $4$–manifolds. We present an example of a construction of a minimal symplectic exotic $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}{}^2\mathrm{\#<\#comment/>}5\stackrel{¯<\#comment/>}{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}{}^2$through this procedure applied to a genus– $3$fibration. 

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2. The Zaremba problem in two-dimensional Lipschitz graph domains

   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/9425  

   Carro, María; Luque, Teresa; Naibo, Virginia (July 2025, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   We study the Zaremba problem, or mixed problem associated to the Laplace operator, in two-dimensional Lipschitz graph domains with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary data in Lebesgue and Lorentz spaces. We obtain an explicit value $r$such that the Zaremba problem is solvable in $L^p$for $1>p>r$and in the Lorentz space $L^{r,1}$. Applications include those where the domain is a cone with vertex at the origin and, more generally, a Schwarz–Christoffel domain. The techniques employed are based on results of the Zaremba problem in the upper half-plane, the use of conformal maps and the theory of solutions to the Neumann problem. For the case when the domain is the upper half-plane, we work in the weighted setting, establishing conditions on the weights for the existence of solutions and estimates for the non-tangential maximal function of the gradient of the solution. In particular, in the $L^2$-unweighted case, where known examples show that the gradient of the solution may fail to be squared-integrable, we prove restricted weak-type estimates. 

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3. Holomorphic curves in the 6-pseudosphere and cyclic surfaces

   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/9172  

   Collier, Brian; Toulisse, Jérémy (June 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   The space ${\mathbf{H}}^{4,2}$of vectors of norm $-<\#comment/>1$in ${\mathbb{R}}^{4,3}$has a natural pseudo-Riemannian metric and a compatible almost complex structure. The group of automorphisms of both of these structures is the split real form ${\mathsf{G}}_2^{\prime }$. In this paper we consider a class of holomorphic curves in ${\mathbf{H}}^{4,2}$which we call alternating. We show that such curves admit a so called Frenet framing. Using this framing, we show that the space of alternating holomorphic curves which are equivariant with respect to a surface group is naturally parameterized by certain ${\mathsf{G}}_2^{\prime }$-Higgs bundles. This leads to a holomorphic description of the moduli space as a fibration over Teichmüller space with a holomorphic action of the mapping class group. Using a generalization of Labourie’s cyclic surfaces, we then show that equivariant alternating holomorphic curves are infinitesimally rigid. 

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4. On the Size of the Singular Set of Minimizing Harmonic Maps

   https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1519  

   Mazowiecka, Katarzyna; Miśkiewicz, Michał; Schikorra, Armin (October 2024, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)

   We consider minimizing harmonic maps $u$from $\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}\subset <\#comment/>{\mathbb{R}}^n$into a closed Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{N}$and prove: 1. an extension to $n\ge <\#comment/>4$of Almgren and Lieb’s linear law. That is, if the fundamental group of the target manifold $\mathcal{N}$is finite, we have\[ ${\mathcal{H}}^{n-<\#comment/>3}(\mathrm{sing}<\#comment/>u)\le <\#comment/>C{\int <\#comment/>}_{\mathrm{\partial <\#comment/>}\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}|{\mathrm{\nabla <\#comment/>}}_{T}u{|}^{n-<\#comment/>1}\mathrm{d}{\mathcal{H}}^{n-<\#comment/>1};$\]2. an extension of Hardt and Lin’s stability theorem. Namely, assuming that the target manifold is $\mathcal{N}={\mathbb{S}}^2$we obtain that the singular set of $u$is stable under small $W^{1,n-<\#comment/>1}$-perturbations of the boundary data. In dimension $n=3$both results are shown to hold with weaker hypotheses, i.e., only assuming that the trace of our map lies in the fractional space $W^{s,p}$with $s\in <\#comment/>(\frac{1}{2},1]$and $p\in <\#comment/>[2,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>})$satisfying $sp\ge <\#comment/>2$. We also discuss sharpness. 

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5. A note on surfaces in ℂℙ² and ℂℙ²#ℂℙ²

   https://doi.org/10.1090/bproc/218  

   Marengon, Marco; Miller, Allison; Ray, Arunima; Stipsicz, András (June 2024, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B)

   In this brief note, we investigate the ${\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$-genus of knots, i.e., the least genus of a smooth, compact, orientable surface in ${\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2\setminus <\#comment/>\stackrel{˚<\#comment/>}{B^4}$bounded by a knot in $S^3$. We show that this quantity is unbounded, unlike its topological counterpart. We also investigate the ${\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$-genus of torus knots. We apply these results to improve the minimal genus bound for some homology classes in ${\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2\mathrm{\#<\#comment/>}{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$. 

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