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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 ΦX,sI\Phi_{X, \mathfrak{s}}^{I} for closed, spin four-manifolds (X,s)(X, \mathfrak{s}) using the cobordism maps on involutive Heegaard Floer homology. The invariant is well-defined whenever b2+(X)>4b_{2}^{+}(X) > 4. We furthermore construct an involutive Seiberg-Witten invariant that is well-defined whenever b2+(X)>3b_{2}^{+}(X) > 3. 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 K3#(S2×S2)K3\#(S^2 \times S^2) 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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