Involutive Floer Invariants for Closed Four-Manifolds
Geometric Topology
2026-04-21 v1
Abstract
Inspired by the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o mixed invariant in ordinary Heegaard Floer theory, we define a mixed invariant for closed, spin four-manifolds using the cobordism maps on involutive Heegaard Floer homology. The invariant is well-defined whenever . We furthermore construct an involutive Seiberg-Witten invariant that is well-defined whenever . We show that these involutive invariants obstruct the existence of disjoint pairs of embedded surfaces which both violate the adjunction inequality. As an application, we find that contains no such pair.
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@article{arxiv.2604.18275,
title = {Involutive Floer Invariants for Closed Four-Manifolds},
author = {Owen Brass},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18275},
year = {2026}
}
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