SO(3)-monopoles: The overlap problem

zbMATH Open1094.58003arXiv1211.0480MaRDI QIDQ5477299FDOQ5477299

Thomas G. Leness, Paul M. N. Feehan

Publication date: 3 July 2006

Abstract: The SO(3)-monopole program, initiated by Pidstrigatch and Tyurin [arXiv:dg-ga/9507004], yields a relationship between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants through a cobordism between the moduli spaces defining these invariants. The main technical difficulty in this program lies in describing the links of singularities in this cobordism arising from the Seiberg-Witten moduli subspaces. In related articles, we defined maps which, essentially, define normal bundles of strata of these singularities. The link in question is then the boundary of the union of the tubular neighborhoods associated with these normal bundles. However, the SO(3)-monopole program requires the computation of intersection numbers with links where more than one stratum appears in the family of singularities and thus more than one tubular neighborhood appears in the definition of the link. Computations of intersection numbers in unions of open sets have proved difficult for even two open sets, as early work of Leness [arXiv:dg-ga/9603016] and Ozsvath [1994] demonstrated. In this note, we give a brief introduction to our monograph [arXiv:math/0203047], in which we implement these computations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0480

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zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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• The \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\) monopole cobordism and superconformal simple type
• Witten's conjecture for many four-manifolds of simple type
• An SO(3)-Monopole Cobordism Formula Relating Donaldson and Seiberg–Witten Invariants
• Degeneracy loci of families of Dirac operators
• Superconformal simple type and Witten's conjecture

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