Smooth s-cobordisms of elliptic 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1146169935MaRDI QIDQ2497121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Weimin Chen

Publication date 1 August 2006

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403396

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic 3-manifoldss-cobordismSeiberg-Witten-Taub theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80)

Abstract: The main result of this paper states that a symplectic s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming a canonical contact structure on the boundary). Based on this theorem, we conjecture that a smooth s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is smoothly a product if its universal cover is smoothly a product. We explain how the conjecture fits naturally into the program of Taubes of constructing symplectic structures on an oriented smooth 4-manifold from generic self-dual harmonic forms. The paper also contains an auxiliary result of independent interest, which generalizes Taubes' theorem SW --> Gr to the case of symplectic 4-orbifolds.

Review text

The main result of the paper states that a symplectic s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming a canonical contact structure on the boundary).

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