Extremal discs in almost complex spaces

Gaussier, Hervé; Joo, Jae-Cheon

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 9 (2010) no. 4, pp. 759-783.

We give a necessary condition for the existence of extremal pseudoholomorphic discs on some domains in $({ℝ}^{2n},J)$ where $J$ is a small almost complex deformation of the standard complex structure.

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