Stable Cohomotopy Seiberg-Witten Invariants of Connected Sums of Four-Manifolds with Positive First Betti Number

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dc.creatorIshida, Masashi
dc.creatorSasahira, Hirofumi
dc.date2008-04-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:33:58Z
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dc.descriptionWe shall prove a new non-vanishing theorem for the stable cohomotopy Seiberg-Witten invariant of connected sums of 4-manifolds with positive first Betti number. The non-vanishing theorem enables us to find many new examples of 4-manifolds with non-trivial stable cohomotopy Seiberg-Witten invariants and it also gives a partial, but strong affirmative answer to a conjecture concerning non-vanishing of the invariant. Various new applications of the non-vanishing theorem are also given. For example, we shall introduce variants $\barλ_k$ of Perelman's $\barλ$ invariants for real numbers $k$ and compute the values for a large class of 4-manifolds including connected sums of certain K{ä}hler surfaces. The non-vanishing theorem is also used to construct the first examples of 4-manifolds with non-zero simplicial volume and satisfying the strict Gromov-Hitchin-Thorpe inequality, but admitting infinitely many distinct smooth structures for which no compatible Einstein metric exists. Moreover, we are able to prove a new result on the existence of exotic smooth structures.
dc.description78 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3452
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3452
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159324
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject57R57; 53C25
dc.titleStable Cohomotopy Seiberg-Witten Invariants of Connected Sums of Four-Manifolds with Positive First Betti Number
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