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Seiberg-Witten Floer K-theory and cyclic group actions on spin four-manifolds with boundary

Geometric Topology 2025-10-14 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Given a spin rational homology sphere YY equipped with a Z/m\mathbb{Z}/m-action preserving the spin structure, we use the Seiberg--Witten equations to define equivariant refinements of the invariant κ(Y)\kappa(Y) from \cite{Man14}, which take the form of a finite subset of elements in a lattice constructed from the representation ring of a twisted product of Pin(2)\text{Pin}(2) and Z/m\mathbb{Z}/m. The main theorems consist of equivariant relative 10/8-ths type inequalities for spin equivariant cobordisms between rational homology spheres. We provide applications to knot concordance, give obstructions to extending cyclic group actions to spin fillings, and via taking branched covers we obtain genus bounds for knots in punctured 4-manifolds. In some cases, these bounds are strong enough to determine the relative genus for a large class of knots within certain homology classes in CP2#CP2\mathbb{C} P^{2}\#\mathbb{C} P^{2}, S2×S2#S2×S2S^{2}\times S^{2}\# S^{2}\times S^{2}, CP2#S2×S2\mathbb{C} P^{2}\# S^{2}\times S^{2}, and homotopy K3K3 surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.2210.08565,
  title  = {Seiberg-Witten Floer K-theory and cyclic group actions on spin four-manifolds with boundary},
  author = {Imogen Montague},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08565},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: Edits for clarity, changes in notation, etc. Significant rewrites of sections 8.2 and 8.3; fixed calculations for higher order actions