Lectures on Gromov invariants for symplectic 4-manifolds

zbMATH Open0881.57037arXivdg-ga/9606005MaRDI QIDQ4337502FDOQ4337502

Authors: Dusa McDuff 

Publication date: 26 November 1997

Abstract: These are notes of lectures given at the NATO Summer School, Montreal 1995. Taubes's recent spectacular work setting up a correspondence between $J$-holomorphic curves in symplectic 4-manifolds and solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations counts $J$-holomorphic curves in a somewhat new way. The "standard" theory concerns itself with moduli spaces of connected curves, and gives rise to Gromov-Witten invariants. However, Taubes's curves arise as zero sets of sections and so need not be connected. These notes are in the main expository. We first discuss the invariants as Taubes defined them, and then discuss some alternatives, showing, for example, a way of dealing with multiply-covered exceptional spheres. We also calculate some examples, in particular finding the Gromov invariant of the fiber class of an elliptic surface by counting $J$-holomorphic curves, rather than going via Seiberg--Witten theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9606005

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theorysymplecticfour-manifoldsGromov invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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