The Gromov invariants of Ruan-Tian and Taubes

DOI10.4310/MRL.1997.V4.N4.A9zbMATH Open0889.57030arXivalg-geom/9702008OpenAlexW1966786065MaRDI QIDQ1372890FDOQ1372890

Authors: Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel, Thomas H. Parker 

Publication date: 25 June 1998

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Taubes has recently defined Gromov invariants for symplectic four-manifolds and related them to the Seiberg-Witten invariants. Independently, Ruan and Tian defined symplectic invariants based on ideas of Witten. In this note, we show that Taubes' Gromov invariants are equal to certain combinations of Ruan-Tian invariants. This link allows us to generalize Taubes' invariants. For each closed symplectic four-manifold, we define a sequence of symplectic invariants $G{r}_{delta}$, $delta=0,1,2,\mathrm{...}$. The first of these, $G{r}_0$, generates Taubes' invariants, which count embedded J-holomorphic curves. The new invariants $G{r}_{delta}$ count immersed curves with $delta$ double points. In particular, these results give an independent proof that Taubes' invariants are well-defined. They also show that some of the Ruan-Tian symplectic invariants agree with the Seiberg-Witten invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9702008

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Gromov invariantsfour-dimensional symplectic manifold

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