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This is a companion paper to earlier work of the authors, which proved an integral surgery formula for framed instanton homology. First, we present an enhancement of the large surgery formula, a rational surgery formula for null-homologous…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhenkun Li , Fan Ye

We construct a combinatorial invariant of 3-orbifolds with singular set a link that generalizes the Turaev torsion invariant of 3-manifolds. We give several gluing formulas from which we derive two consequences. The first is an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Biji Wong

We obtain constraints on the topology of families of smooth $4$-manifolds arising from a finite dimensional approximation of the families Seiberg-Witten monopole map. Amongst other results these constraints include a families generalisation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-10 David Baraglia

In this paper, we define contact invariants in bordered sutured Floer homology. Given a contact 3-manifold with convex boundary, we apply a result of Zarev (arxiv:1010.3496) to derive contact invariants in the bordered sutured modules…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Hyunki Min , Konstantinos Varvarezos

For any smooth complex projective surface $S$, we construct semistable refined Vafa-Witten invariants of $S$ which prove the main conjecture of arXiv:1810.00078. This is done by extending part of Joyce's universal wall-crossing formalism to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Henry Liu

This paper is motivated by the question of how motivic Donaldson--Thomas invariants behave in families. We compute the invariants for some simple families of noncommutative Calabi--Yau threefolds, defined by quivers with homogeneous…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Alberto Cazzaniga , Andrew Morrison , Brent Pym , Balazs Szendroi

Motivated by physical constructions of homological knot invariants, we study their analogs for closed 3-manifolds. We show that fivebrane compactifications provide a universal description of various old and new homological invariants of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Sergei Gukov , Pavel Putrov , Cumrun Vafa

Let $(F,J,\omega)$ be an almost K\"ahler manifold, $\alpha$ a $J$-holomorphic action of a compact Lie group $\hat K$ on $F$, and $K$ a closed normal subgroup of $\hat K$ which leaves $\omega$ invariant. We introduce gauge theoretical…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Ch. Okonek , A. Teleman

We give a surgery formula for the torsions and Seiberg-Witten invariants associated with $Spin^c$-structures on 3-manifolds. We use the technique of Reidemeister-type torsions and their refinements.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Vladimir Turaev

We compute Gromov-Witten (GW) and Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants (and also descendant invariants) for local CY 4-folds over Fano 3-folds, V_5 and V_22 up to degree 3. We use torus localization for GW invariants computation, and use…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Kiryong Chung , Sanghyeon Lee , Joonyeong Won

We generalize the analysis by Moore and Witten in [arXiv:hep-th/9709193], and consider integration over the u-plane in Donaldson theory with surface operators on a smooth four-manifold X. Several novel aspects will be developed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 Meng-Chwan Tan

This is a concise version of the original article in [arXiv:2203.17115] that will be published in the String Math 2022 Proceedings by the American Mathematical Society.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-01 Meng-Chwan Tan

We survey the different versions of Floer homology that can be associated to three-manifolds. We also discuss their applications, particularly to questions about surgery, homology cobordism, and four-manifolds with boundary. We then…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Ciprian Manolescu

We study the Donaldson invariants of simply connected $4$-manifolds with $b_+=1$, and in particular the change of the invariants under wall-crossing. We assume the conjecture of Kotschick and Morgan about the shape of the wall-crossing…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Lothar Göttsche

This paper studies invariants of 3-manifolds derived from certain fin ite dimensional Hopf algebras. The invariants are based on right integrals for these algebras. It is shown that the resulting class of invariants is distinct from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Louis H. Kauffman , David E. Radford

In an earlier paper (math.SG/0110169), we introduced absolute gradings on the three-manifold invariants developed in math.SG/0101206 and math.SG/0105202. Coupled with the surgery long exact sequences, we obtain a number of three- and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter S Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We calculate the D-brane superpotentials for two Calabi-Yau manifolds with three deformations by the generalized hypergeometric GKZ systems, which give rise to the flux superpotentials $\mathcal{W}_{GVW}$ of the dual F-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-06 Feng-Jun Xu , Fu-Zhong Yang

The goal of the present paper is to show the transformation formula of Donaldson-Thomas invariants on smooth projective Calabi-Yau 3-folds under birational transformations via categorical method. We also generalize the non-commutative…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Yukinobu Toda

This work identifies a class of moves on knots which translate to $m$-equivalences of the associated $p$-fold branched cyclic covers, for a fixed $m$ and any $p$ (with respect to the Goussarov-Habiro filtration.) These moves are applied to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Kricker

We introduce new topological quantum invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds with boundary where the boundary is a disjoint union of two identical surfaces. The invariants are constructed via surgery on manifolds of the form $F \times I$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa