Vortices and a TQFT for Lefschetz fibrations on 4-manifolds

DOI10.2140/agt.2006.6.1677zbMath1131.57031arXivmath/0603128MaRDI QIDQ863076

Michael Usher

Publication date: 25 January 2007

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603128

zbMATH Keywords

Floer homology; Lefschetz fibration; TQFT; symmetric product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R57: Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds

57R56: Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology)

53D40: Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology

57R58: Floer homology

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Taubes’s proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three, Symplectic Floer homology of area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms, Lagrangian matching invariants for fibred four-manifolds. II., Symplectic fibrations and the Abelian vortex equations, Lagrangian matching invariants for fibred four-manifolds. I.

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