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On the intersection forms of spin four-manifolds with boundary

Geometric Topology 2014-01-15 v4

Abstract

We prove Furuta-type bounds for the intersection forms of spin cobordisms between homology 3-spheres. The bounds are in terms of a new numerical invariant of homology spheres, obtained from Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer K-theory. In the process we introduce the notion of a Floer K_G-split homology sphere; this concept may be useful in an approach to the 11/8 conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1305.4667,
  title  = {On the intersection forms of spin four-manifolds with boundary},
  author = {Ciprian Manolescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4667},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

fixed Lemma 3.8 and changed Definition 4.2