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The SO(3) monopole cobordism and superconformal simple type

Differential Geometry 2020-08-17 v5 Mathematical Physics General Topology math.MP

Abstract

We show that the SO(3) monopole cobordism formula from Feehan and Leness (2002) implies that all smooth, closed, oriented four-manifolds with b1=0b^1=0 and b+3b^+\geq 3 and odd with Seiberg-Witten simple type satisfy the superconformal simple type condition defined by Marino, Moore, and Peradze (1999) This implies the lower bound, conjectured by Fintushel and Stern (2001) on the number of Seiberg-Witten basic classes in terms of topological data.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5307,
  title  = {The SO(3) monopole cobordism and superconformal simple type},
  author = {Paul M. N. Feehan and Thomas G. Leness},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5307},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

32 pages, incorporating final galley proof corrections. To appear in Advances in Mathematics