Positive scalar curvature, diffeomorphisms and the Seiberg-Witten invariants

DOI10.2140/gt.2001.5.895zbMath1002.57064arXivmath/0105027OpenAlexW3099615593MaRDI QIDQ1601289

Daniel Ruberman

Publication date: 25 June 2002

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105027

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten equationsisotopyPositive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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