The Thurston norm and three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory

MaRDI QIDQ1356396zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Auckly

Publication date 5 February 1998

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten equationsThom conjectureThurston norm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Review text

For a general algebraic surface \(2g-2 \geq |K\dot F|+ F\dot F\), when \(F\) is an embedded surface of genus \(g\) with positive self-intersection and \(K\) is the canonical homology class. The same inequality holds when there is an algebraically non-trivial number of solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations: \(F_{A}^{+}=(\Psi,\overline{\Psi})\), \(\partial_{A} \Psi =0\) on a line bundle with first Chern class \(K\). These facts lead to a proof of the Thom conjecture: an algebraic curve in \(\mathbb{C} P^2\) realizes the minimal genus in a given homology class. In this paper a three-dimensional version of the Thom conjecture is proved using a norm on the second homology of irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifolds by \textit{W. P. Thurston} [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 339, 99-130 (1986; Zbl 0585.57006)].

Recommendations

• A product formula for the Seiberg-Witten invariants and the generalized Thom conjecture
• Holomorphic disks and genus bounds
• The genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves
• The symplectic Thom conjecture

Cited in

(11)

• A product formula for the Seiberg-Witten invariants and the generalized Thom conjecture
• Symplectic and hyper-Kähler structures in a dimensional reduction of the Seiberg-Witten equations with a Higgs field
• Holomorphic disks and genus bounds
• The symplectic Thom conjecture
• Minimal genus in 4-manifolds with a free circle action
• The genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4022170 (Why is no real title available?)
• A Survey of the Thurston Norm
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2221977 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5179001 (Why is no real title available?)
• A norm for the cohomology of 2-complexes

This page was built for publication: The Thurston norm and three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1356396)