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Niemeier lattices, smooth 4-manifolds and instantons

Geometric Topology 2018-08-31 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that the set of even positive definite lattices that arise from smooth, simply-connected 4-manifolds bounded by a fixed homology 3-sphere can depend on more than the ranks of the lattices. We provide two homology 3-spheres with distinct sets of such lattices, each containing a distinct nonempty subset of the rank 24 Niemeier lattices.

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@article{arxiv.1808.10321,
  title  = {Niemeier lattices, smooth 4-manifolds and instantons},
  author = {Christopher Scaduto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10321},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages, 8 figures. Comments welcome!