• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.5
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• pp.1081-1107
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• 2021

In this paper, we introduce the notion of toric special weak Fano manifolds, which have only special primitive crepant contractions. We study their structure, and in particular completely classify smooth toric special weak Fano 4-folds. As a result, we can confirm that almost every smooth toric special weak Fano 4-fold is a weakened Fano manifold, that is, a weak Fano manifold which can be deformed to a Fano manifold.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.691-701
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• 2006

In this paper, we construct a new exotic smooth 4-manifold X which is homeomorphic, but not diffeomorphic, to ${\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{P}^2{\sharp}13\overline{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$. Moreover the manifold X has vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants for all $Spin^c$-structures of X and has no symplectic structure.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.683-691
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• 1999

It has long been a question which homology class is represented by an embedded 2-sphere in a smooth 4-manifold. In this article we study the adjunction inequality, one of main results of Seiberg-Witten theory in smooth 4-manifolds, for an embedded 2-sphere. As a result, we give a criterion which homology class cannot be represented by an embedded 2-sphere in some cases.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.619-629
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• 1996

In studying smooth 4-manifolds the Donaldson invariant has played a central role. In [D1] Donaldson showed that non-vanishing Donaldson invariant of a smooth closed oriented 4-manifold X gives rise to the indecomposability of X. For instance, the complex algebraic suface X cannot decompose to a connected sum $X_1 #X_2$ with both $b_2^+(X_i) > 0$.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.549-554
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• 2014

We present a smooth simply connected closed eight dimensional manifold with distinct symplectic deformation equivalence classes [[${\omega}_i$]], i = 1, 2 such that the symplectic Z invariant, which is defined in terms of the scalar curvatures of almost K$\ddot{a}$hler metrics in [5], satisfies $Z(M,[[{\omega}_1]])={\infty}$ and $Z(M,[[{\omega}_2]])$ < 0.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.199-206
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• 2013

We present a 4-dimensional nil-manifold as the first example of a closed non-K$\ddot{a}$hlerian symplectic manifold with the following property: a function is the scalar curvature of some almost K$\ddot{a}$hler metric iff it is negative somewhere. This is motivated by the Kazdan-Warner's work on classifying smooth closed manifolds according to the possible scalar curvature functions.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.641-648
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• 2000

The purpose of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition for a smooth manifold to admit a Lorentzian metric. As an application of this result, on Lorentzian manifolds we have shown that the existence of a 1-dimensional distribution is equivalent to the existence of a non-vanishing vector field.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.471-479
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• 2015

In this paper, we prove that any stable f-harmonic map ${\psi}$ from ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ to N is a holomorphic or anti-holomorphic map, where N is a $K{\ddot{a}}hlerian$ manifold with non-positive holomorphic bisectional curvature and f is a smooth positive function on the sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$with Hess $f{\leq}0$. We also prove that any stable f-harmonic map ${\psi}$ from sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^n$ (n > 2) to Riemannian manifold N is constant.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.1069-1099
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• 1996

Let X be a smooth, simply connected and oriented closed fourmanifold such that the dimension $b_{2}^{+}(X)$ of a maximal positive subspace for the intersection form is greater than or equal to 3.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.359-364
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• 2015

We present smooth simply connected closed 4k-dimensional manifolds N := N_k, for each k ∈ {2, 3, ⋯}, with distinct symplectic deformation equivalence classes [[ω_i]], i = 1, 2. To distinguish [[ω_i]]’s, we used the symplectic Z invariant in [4] which depends only on the symplectic deformation equivalence class. We have computed that Z(N, [[ω₁]]) = ∞ and Z(N, [[ω₂]]) < 0.