On higher rank instantons & the monopole cobordism program
Abstract
Witten's conjecture suggests that the polynomial invariants of Donaldson are expressible in terms of the Seiberg-Witten invariants if the underlying four-manifold is of simple type. A higher rank version of the Donaldson invariants was introduced by Kronheimer. Before even having been defined, the physicists Mari\~no and Moore had already suggested that there should be a generalisation of Witten's conjecture to this type of invariants. We study a generalisation of the classical cobordism program to the higher rank situation and obtain vanishing results which gives evidence that the generalisation of Witten's conjecture should hold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.5146,
title = {On higher rank instantons & the monopole cobordism program},
author = {Raphael Zentner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5146},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
This manuscript fusions the two previous manuscripts "What to expect from U(n) monopoles" and "PU(N) monopoles, higher rank instantons, and the monopole invariants". Furthermore, one of the vanishing arguments is made more precise. 29 pages