scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1054859

Authors Thomas Friedrich, Jürgen Eichhorn

Publication date 27 October 1997

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/208666

\(\text{spin}^ c\) structures Seiberg-Witten equations Thom conjecture

Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Review text

Based on lectures given in January 1995 and May 1995, this is an expository article describing Seiberg-Witten theory for smooth 4-manifolds. After giving some background material on \(\text{spin}^c\) structures, the authors describe the Seiberg-Witten equations, the moduli space of their solutions, and the manifold invariants constructed from them. They discuss the special case in which the four-manifold is a Kaehler surface, and show how the Seiberg-Witten invariants can be calculated in this case. They discuss applications of Seiberg-Witten theory to the proof of the Thom conjecture (by Kronheimer and Mrowka), and to symplectic topology (by Taubes). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0863.00038].

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