A symplectic geometry approach to generalized Casson’s invariants of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15885-9zbMath0699.57009OpenAlexW1990288901MaRDI QIDQ3477676

Edward Y. Miller, Ronnie Lee, Sylvain E. Cappell

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15885-9

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometryCasson invariantsrational homology-3-spheresrepresentations of fundamental groups in SU(n)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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