Gluing 4-manifolds along \(\Sigma (2,3,11)\)
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Gluing 4-manifolds along \(\Sigma (2,3,11)\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0983.57026
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00086-3
author: András I. Stipsicz
author: Zoltán Szabó
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 2001-01-04T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors define a smooth invariant for four manifolds with boundary diffeomorphic to the Seifert fibered homology 3-sphere \(\Sigma(2,3,11)\). Their invariant is based on Seiberg-Witten theory for 4-manifolds with homology 3-sphere boundaries, plus the fact that the three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten equations on \(\Sigma(2,3,11)\) have exactly two non-trivial solutions. They prove the following result, which relates their invariant to the usual Seiberg-Witten invariant: Suppose that a four manifold \(Z\) decomposes as \(Z=X\bigcup_{\Sigma(2,3,11)}Y\), where \(X\) and \(Y\) are four manifolds with boundary \(\pm\Sigma(2,3,11)\). Let \({\mathcal SW}(X)\) and \({\mathcal SW}(Y)\) denote the formal power series formed in the standard way from the invariants defined in this paper, and let \({\mathcal SW}(Z)\) denote the formal power series formed from the Seiberg-Witten invariants of \(Z\). Then \[ {\mathcal SW}(Z)={\mathcal SW}(X)\cdot {\mathcal SW}(Y)\;. \] As an application of this formula the authors prove that there exists a four manifold which contains no embedded Gompf nucleus \(N(2)_{p,q}\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14J80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N13
zbMATH DE Number: 1506031
zbMATH Keywords: Seiberg-Witten invariants
zbMATH Keywords: Seifert fibered homology spheres
reviewed by: Steven B. Bradlow
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1506031