On higher rank instantons and the monopole cobordism program

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAQ035MaRDI QIDQ3225680zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raphael Zentner

Publication date 22 March 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5146

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariantsDonaldson invariantsSeiberg-Witten equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

Abstract: Witten's conjecture suggests that the polynomial invariants of Donaldson are expressible in terms of the Seiberg-Witten invariants if the underlying four-manifold is of simple type. A higher rank version of the Donaldson invariants was introduced by Kronheimer. Before even having been defined, the physicists Mari~no and Moore had already suggested that there should be a generalisation of Witten's conjecture to this type of invariants. We study a generalisation of the classical cobordism program to the higher rank situation and obtain vanishing results which gives evidence that the generalisation of Witten's conjecture should hold.

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