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Holomorphic polygons and smooth 4-manifold invariants

Symplectic Geometry 2013-10-14 v1

Abstract

Any smooth, closed oriented 4-manifold has a surface diagram of arbitrarily high genus g>2 that specifies it up to diffeomorphism. The goal of this paper is to prove the following statement: For any smooth, closed oriented 4-manifold M, there is a sequence of weak A-infinity algebras indexed by g, and the homotopy equivalence class of each entry of this sequence is a diffeomorphism invariant of M.

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@article{arxiv.1310.2969,
  title  = {Holomorphic polygons and smooth 4-manifold invariants},
  author = {Jonathan D. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2969},
  year   = {2013}
}

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31 pages. Preliminary: Comments welcome

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