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We study the first-order formalism of pure four-dimensional ${\rm SU}(2)$ Yang--Mills theory with theta-term. We describe the Green functions associated to electric and magnetic flux operators \`a la 't~Hooft by means of gauge-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. S. Cattaneo , P. Cotta-Ramusino , A. Gamba , M. Martellini

Surgery exact triangles in various 3-manifold Floer homology theories provide an important tool in studying and computing the relevant Floer homology groups. These exact triangles relate the invariants of 3-manifolds, obtained by three…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Lucas Culler , Aliakbar Daemi , Yi Xie

The cosmetic surgery conjecture predicts that for a non-trivial knot in the three-sphere, performing two different Dehn surgeries results in distinct oriented three-manifolds. Hanselman reduced the problem to $\pm 2$ or $\pm 1/n$ surgeries…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Aliakbar Daemi , Mike Miller Eismeier , Tye Lidman

This paper is a continuation of author's previous work arXiv:1911.07949, where we defined Donaldson-Thomas invariants of quantum Fermat threefolds. In this paper, we study the generic quantum Fermat threefold. We give explicit local models…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Yu-Hsiang Liu

Some properties of non-orientable 3-manifolds are shown. The semi-group of cobordism of immersions of surfaces in such manifolds is computed and proven actually to be a group. Explicit invariants are provided.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rosa Gini

We define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory (SHM). Our invariant can be viewed as a generalization of Kronheimer and Mrowka's contact invariant for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-16 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

This paper presents the construction of the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology of three-manifolds with non-trivial rational homology, and some properties of the invariant of three-manifolds obtained by computing the Euler characteristic. This…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Matilde Marcolli

We explain how a version of Floer homology can be used as an invariant of symplectic manifolds with $b_1>0$. As a concrete example, we look at four-manifolds produced from braids by a surgery construction. The outcome shows that the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Seidel

We define some new invariants for 3-manifolds using the space of taut codim-1 foliations along with various techniques from noncommutative geometry. These invariants originate from our attempt to generalise Topological Quantum Field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Ioannis P. Zois

We construct unitary modular categories for a general class of coset conformal field theories based on our previous study of these theories in the algebraic quantum field theory framework using subfactor theory. We also consider the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xu

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we give a survey on the recent developments of curve counting invariants on Calabi-Yau 3-folds, e.g. Gromov-Witten theory, Donaldson-Thomas theory and Pandharipande-Thomas theory. Next we focus on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Yukinobu Toda

We propose a general theory of the Open Gromov-Witten invariant on Calabi-Yau three-folds. In this paper we construct the Open Gromov-Witten potential. The evaluation of the potential on its critical points leads to numerical invariants.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Vito Iacovino

In this survey paper, we will collate various different ideas and thoughts regarding equivariant operations on quantum cohomology (and some in more general Floer theory) for a symplectic manifold. We will discuss a general notion of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Nicholas Wilkins

Based on the large N duality relating topological string theory on Calabi-Yau 3-folds and Chern-Simons theory on 3-manifolds, M. Aganagic, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa proposed the topological vertex (hep-th/0305132), an algorithm on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-16 Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

Surgery triangles are an important computational tool in Floer homology. Given a connected oriented surface $\Sigma$, we consider the abelian group $K(\Sigma)$ generated by bordered 3-manifolds with boundary $\Sigma$, modulo the relation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Lucas Culler

Recently, a universal formula for a non-holomorphic modular completion of the generating functions of refined BPS indices in various theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry has been suggested. It expresses the completion through the holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov

Adapting a construction of D Salamon involving the U(1) vortex equations, we explore the properties of a Floer theory for 3-manifolds that fiber over S^1 which exhibits several parallels with monopole Floer homology, and in all likelihood…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Michael Usher

Let $X$ be a compact complex Calabi-Yau 4-fold. Under certain assumptions, we define Donaldson-Thomas type deformation invariants ($DT_{4}$ invariants) by studying moduli spaces of solutions to the Donaldson-Thomas equations on $X$. We also…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Yalong Cao , Naichung Conan Leung

Given a quasi-projective 3-fold X with only Gorenstein terminal singularities, we prove that the flop functors beginning at X satisfy higher degree braid relations, with the combinatorics controlled by a real hyperplane arrangement H. This…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Will Donovan , Michael Wemyss

We study the problem of computing Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for multiparameter families of symmetric Calabi-Yau threefolds admitting flops to diffeomorphic manifolds. There are infinite Coxeter groups, generated by permutations and flops,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Pyry Kuusela , Joseph McGovern