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Thin instantons in G_2-manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants

Differential Geometry 2013-03-28 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

For two nearby disjoint coassociative submanifolds C and C' in a G_2-manifold, we construct thin instantons with boundaries lying on C and C' from regular J-holomorphic curves in C. We explain their relationship with the Seiberg-Witten invariants for C.

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@article{arxiv.1107.1947,
  title  = {Thin instantons in G_2-manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants},
  author = {Naichung Conan Leung and Xiaowei Wang and Ke Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1947},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

75 pages. Improved exposition. To appear in J. Diff. Geom. 2013