Monopole Floer homology and the spectral geometry of three-manifolds

DOI10.4310/CAG.2020.V28.N5.A2zbMATH Open1472.57032arXiv1705.08817OpenAlexW3095687393MaRDI QIDQ2208315FDOQ2208315

Francesco Lin

Publication date: 2 November 2020

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We refine some classical estimates in Seiberg-Witten theory, and discuss an application to the spectral geometry of three-manifolds. In particular, we show that on a rational homology three-sphere $Y$, for any Riemannian metric the first eigenvalue of the laplacian on coexact one-forms is bounded above explicitly in terms of the Ricci curvature, provided that $Y$ is not an $L$-space (in the sense of Floer homology). The latter is a purely topological condition, and holds in a variety of examples. Performing the analogous refinement in the case of manifolds with $b_1>0$, we obtain a gauge-theoretic proof of an inequality of Brock and Dunfield relating the Thurston and $L^2$ norms of hyperbolic three-manifolds, first proved using minimal surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08817

zbMATH Keywords

spectral geometrySeiberg-Witten theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Floer homology (57R58) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Invariants of 4-manifolds (including Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) (57K41)

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