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Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Natural Sciences

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Present	Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Geometry and Topology

Topology and Geometry

Lederle Graduate Research Tower Room 1336
710 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Articles (7)

On the orders of periodic diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds

Duke Mathematical Journal (2011)

This paper initiated an investigation on the following question: Suppose that a smooth 4 -manifold does not admit any smooth ...

Group actions on 4-manifolds: some recent results and open questions

Proceedings of Gökova Geometry-Topology Conference 2009 (2009)

A survey of finite group actions on symplectic 4-manifolds is given with a special emphasis on results and questions concerning ...

Symmetries and exotic smooth structures on a K3 surface

JOURNAL OF TOPOLOGY (2008)

WM Chen and S Kwasik

Smooth and symplectic symmetries of an infinite family of distinct exotic K3 surfaces are studied, and a comparison with the ...

Symplectic symmetries of 4-manifolds

TOPOLOGY (2007)

WM Chen and S Kwasik

A study of symplectic actions of a finite group G on smooth 4-manifolds is initiated. The central new idea is ...

ON A NOTION OF MAPS BETWEEN ORBIFOLDS II: HOMOTOPY AND ...

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (2006)

This is the second of a series of papers which is devoted to a comprehensive theory of maps between orbifolds. ...

On a notion of maps between orbifolds I. Function spaces

COMMUNICATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS (2006)

This is the first of a series of papers which is devoted to a comprehensive theory of maps between orbifolds. ...

Smooth s-cobordisms of elliptic 3-manifolds

JOURNAL OF DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY (2006)

The main result of this paper states that a symplectic s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming ...

Unpublished Paper

Finite Symmetries of S^4

Weimin Chen Chen, Slawomir Kwasik and Reinhard Shultz

This paper discusses topological and locally linear actions of finite groups on S4. Local linearity of the orientation preserving actions ...

Unpublished Paper

G-Minimality and Invariant Negative Spheres in G-Hirzenbruch Surfaces

Weimin Chen Chen

In this paper we initiate a study on the notion of G-minimality of four-manifolds equipped with an action of a ...

Unpublished Paper

Fixed-Point Free Circle Actions on 4-Manifolds

Weimin Chen Chen

This paper is concerned with fixed-point free S1-actions (smooth or locally linear) on orientable 4-manifolds. We show that the fundamental ...

Unpublished Paper

On a Notion of Maps Between Orbifolds II. Homotopy and ...

Weimin Chen Chen

This is the second of a series of papers which are devoted to a comprehensive theory of maps between orbifolds. ...

Unpublished Paper

On a Notion of Maps Between Orbifolds I. Function Spaces

Weimin Chen Chen

This is the first of a series of papers which are devoted to a comprehensive theory of maps between orbifolds. ...

Unpublished Paper

On a Theorem of Peters on Automorphisms of Kahler Surfaces

Weimin Chen Chen

For any K¨ahler surface which admits no nonzero holomorphic vectorfields, we consider the group of holomorphic automorphisms which induce identity ...

Unpublished Paper

Orbifold Adjunction Formula and Sympletic Corbordisms Between Lens Spaces

Geometry & Topology (2004)

Weimin Chen Chen

Each lens space has a canonical contact structure which lifts to the distribution of complex lines on the three-sphere. In ...

Unpublished Paper

A Homotopy Theory of Orbispaces

Weimin Chen Chen

An orbifold is a singular space which is locally modeled on the quotient of a smooth manifold by a smooth ...

Unpublished Paper

Orbifold Gromov-Witten Theory

Weimin Chen Chen and Yongbin Ruan

Unpublished Paper

A New Cohomology Theory of Orbifold

Weimin Chen Chen

Unpublished Paper

Orbifold Quantum Cohomology

Weimin Chen Chen and Yongbin Ruan

This is a research announcement on a theory of Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology of symplectic or projective orbifolds. Our ...

Unpublished Paper

Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on S¹×M³

Weimin Chen Chen and Rostislav Matveyev

In this paper we classify symplectic Lefschetz fibrations (with empty base locus) on a four-manifold which is the product of ...

Unpublished Paper

Pseudo-holomorphic Curves and the Weinstein Conjecture

Weimin Chen Chen

Symmetric symplectic homotopy K3 surfaces

Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Publication Series (2011)

WM Chen and S Kwasik

A study on the relation between the smooth structure of a symplectic homotopy K3 surface and its symplectic symmetries is ...