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Author : Scott Jeremy Baldridge
Release : 2001
Genre : Four-manifolds (Topology)
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Book Synopsis Seiberg-Witten Invariants of 4-manifolds with Circle Actions by : Scott Jeremy Baldridge
Download or read book Seiberg-Witten Invariants of 4-manifolds with Circle Actions written by Scott Jeremy Baldridge. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Taubes
Release : 2005
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis Seiberg Witten and Gromov Invariants for Symplectic 4-manifolds by : Clifford Taubes
Download or read book Seiberg Witten and Gromov Invariants for Symplectic 4-manifolds written by Clifford Taubes. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 28-30, 1996, International Press, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California sponsored the First Annual International Press Lecture Series, held on the Irvine campus. This volume consists of four papers comprising the proof of the author's result relating the Seiberg-Witten and Gromov invariants of four manifolds.
Author : John W. Morgan
Release : 1996
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 975/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Seiberg-Witten Equations and Applications to the Topology of Smooth Four-manifolds by : John W. Morgan
Download or read book The Seiberg-Witten Equations and Applications to the Topology of Smooth Four-manifolds written by John W. Morgan. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent introduction of the Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds has revolutionized the study of those manifolds. The invariants are gauge-theoretic in nature and are close cousins of the much-studied SU(2)-invariants defined over fifteen years ago by Donaldson. On a practical level, the new invariants have proved to be more powerful and have led to a vast generalization of earlier results. This book is an introduction to the Seiberg-Witten invariants. The work begins with a review of the classical material on Spin c structures and their associated Dirac operators. Next comes a discussion of the Seiberg-Witten equations, which is set in the context of nonlinear elliptic operators on an appropriate infinite dimensional space of configurations. It is demonstrated that the space of solutions to these equations, called the Seiberg-Witten moduli space, is finite dimensional, and its dimension is then computed. In contrast to the SU(2)-case, the Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces are shown to be compact. The Seiberg-Witten invariant is then essentially the homology class in the space of configurations represented by the Seiberg-Witten moduli space. The last chapter gives a flavor for the applications of these new invariants by computing the invariants for most Kahler surfaces and then deriving some basic toological consequences for these surfaces.
Author : Alexandru Scorpan
Release : 2005-05-10
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wild World of 4-Manifolds by : Alexandru Scorpan
Download or read book The Wild World of 4-Manifolds written by Alexandru Scorpan. This book was released on 2005-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a wonderful book! I strongly recommend this book to anyone, especially graduate students, interested in getting a sense of 4-manifolds. --MAA Reviews The book gives an excellent overview of 4-manifolds, with many figures and historical notes. Graduate students, nonexperts, and experts alike will enjoy browsing through it. -- Robion C. Kirby, University of California, Berkeley This book offers a panorama of the topology of simply connected smooth manifolds of dimension four. Dimension four is unlike any other dimension; it is large enough to have room for wild things to happen, but small enough so that there is no room to undo the wildness. For example, only manifolds of dimension four can exhibit infinitely many distinct smooth structures. Indeed, their topology remains the least understood today. To put things in context, the book starts with a survey of higher dimensions and of topological 4-manifolds. In the second part, the main invariant of a 4-manifold--the intersection form--and its interaction with the topology of the manifold are investigated. In the third part, as an important source of examples, complex surfaces are reviewed. In the final fourth part of the book, gauge theory is presented; this differential-geometric method has brought to light how unwieldy smooth 4-manifolds truly are, and while bringing new insights, has raised more questions than answers. The structure of the book is modular, organized into a main track of about two hundred pages, augmented by extensive notes at the end of each chapter, where many extra details, proofs and developments are presented. To help the reader, the text is peppered with over 250 illustrations and has an extensive index.
Author : Michael Usher
Release : 2011
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 353/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Low-dimensional and Symplectic Topology by : Michael Usher
Download or read book Low-dimensional and Symplectic Topology written by Michael Usher. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every eight years since 1961, the University of Georgia has hosted a major international topology conference aimed at disseminating important recent results and bringing together researchers at different stages of their careers. This volume contains the proceedings of the 2009 conference, which includes survey and research articles concerning such areas as knot theory, contact and symplectic topology, 3-manifold theory, geometric group theory, and equivariant topology. Among other highlights of the volume, a survey article by Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi provides an accessible treatment of their important proof of Taubes' conjecture on symplectic structures on the product of a 3-manifold and a circle, and an intriguing short article by Dennis Sullivan opens the door to the use of modern algebraic-topological techniques in the study of finite-dimensional models of famously difficult problems in fluid dynamics. Continuing what has become a tradition, this volume contains a report on a problem session held at the conference, discussing a variety of open problems in geometric topology.
