A higher dimensional foliated Donaldson theory. I.

DOI10.4310/AJM.2015.V19.N3.A6MaRDI QIDQ2515528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shuguang Wang

Publication date 5 August 2015

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6774

zbMATH Keywords

foliated anti-self dualityfoliation cyclepseudogroupRiemannian foliationtaut foliationtransverse anti-self duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10)

Abstract: We introduce the foliated anti-self dual equation for higher dimensional smooth manifolds with codimension-4 Riemannian foliations. Several fundamental results are established, towards the defining of a Donaldson type invariant for such foliations.

Review text

Donaldson theory has been a remarkable tool for the study of smooth \(4\)-manifolds. There have been a number of proposals to generalize this theory to higher-dimensional settings. The analogous exotic behavior does not exist in higher-dimensional smooth manifolds, so the right place to look is manifolds with additional structure. In this paper, Wang builds the foundations for a generalization of Donaldson theory to manifolds with codimension-\(4\) Riemannian foliation. In particular, after a nice review of foliation theory, he develops a suitable pertubation theory and a Fredholm theory for the foliated case. The main result is a compactification of the relevant moduli spaces. In place of ideal connections that include a finite configuration of points representing the location of bubbling, ideal connections in this setting have to include a rectifiable foliation current with support a finite collection of compact leaves.

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