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The moduli space is usually a manifold. For generic metrics, after gauge fixing, the equations cut out the solution space transversely and so define a smooth manifold. The residual U(1) "gauge fixed" gauge group U(1) acts freely except at reducible monopoles i.e. solutions with
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and can be used to prove similar (but sometimes slightly stronger) results about smooth 4-manifolds. They are technically much easier to work with than Donaldson invariants; for example,
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it has two connected components (chambers). The moduli space can be given a natural orientation from an orientation on the space of positive harmonic 2 forms, and the first cohomology.
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which for generic metrics is the actual dimension away from the reducibles. It means that the moduli space is generically empty if the virtual dimension is negative.
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bounded in Sobolev norms of arbitrary regularity, which shows all solutions are smooth, and that the space of all solutions up to gauge equivalence is compact.
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is a reduction of the structure group to Spin, i.e. a lift of the SO(4) structure on the tangent bundle to the group Spin. By a theorem of
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tends to be compact, so one avoids the hard problems involved in compactifying the moduli spaces in Donaldson theory.
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on which the Seiberg–Witten invariant is 1. In particular it cannot be split as a connected sum of manifolds with
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if the Seiberg–Witten invariant vanishes whenever the expected dimension of the moduli space is nonzero. The
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Hirzebruch, F.; Hopf, H. (1958). "Felder von Flächenelementen in 4-dimensionalen Mannigfaltigkeiten".
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The space of solutions is acted on by the gauge group, and the quotient by this action is called the
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The Seiberg–Witten equations and applications to the topology of smooth four-manifolds
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is a real selfdual two form, often taken to be zero or harmonic. The gauge group
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to SO(4) and is harmless from a homotopical point of view. A Spin-structure or
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of the selfdual two forms with the traceless skew Hermitian endomorphisms of
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admits a Spin structure. The existence of a Spin structure is equivalent to
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acts on the space of solutions. After adding the gauge fixing condition
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representation of Spin(4) on which U(1) acts by multiplication. We have
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Conversely such a lift determines the Spin structure up to 2 torsion in
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acts as a sign on both factors. The group has a natural homomorphism to
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comes with a graded Clifford algebra bundle representation i.e. a map
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the residual U(1) acts freely, except for "reducible solutions" with
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the necessary and sufficient condition for a reducible solution is
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met and solutions are necessarily irreducible. In particular, for
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the moduli space is finite dimensional and has "virtual dimension"
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by anti-symmetrising. In particular this gives an isomorphism of
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Seiberg Witten and Gromov invariants for symplectic 4-manifolds
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bounded with the bound depending only on the scalar curvature
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is closed, the only obstruction to solving this equation for
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for a spinor field of positive chirality, i.e. a section of
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coming from the 2 complex dimensional positive and negative
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For detailed descriptions of Seiberg–Witten invariants see (
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is the space of harmonic anti-selfdual 2-forms. A two form
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is the connected sum of two manifolds both of which have
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acts as a gauge group on the set of all connections on
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The Seiberg–Witten invariant can also be defined when
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A Spin structure determines (and is determined by) a
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Given a compact oriented 4 manifold, choose a smooth
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It gives an induced action of the forms 248:{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} } 94: 27:are invariants of compact smooth oriented 5126: 5039: 4941: 4792: 4716: 4697: 4675: 4473: 4137: 3978: 3607:{\displaystyle \nabla _{A}=\nabla _{0}+A} 2256: 1980: 1954: 1904: 1372: 1343:{\displaystyle \nabla _{A}=\nabla _{0}+A} 521: 474: 424: 411: 241: 228: 197: 184: 82: 66:Seiberg–Witten invariants are similar to 3178:{\displaystyle \Delta |\phi |^{2}\geq 0} 4887: 4732: 4614:is simply connected and symplectic and 3568:, and so are determined by connections 110: 98: 5174: 5108: 5079: 4747: 1422:, there is a unique spinor connection 952:{\displaystyle \gamma (a)^{2}=-g(a,a)} 534:{\displaystyle H^{2}(M,\mathbb {Z} ).} 106: 90: 36: 4785:Lectures on Seiberg-Witten invariants 4782: 959:. There is a unique hermitian metric 545:proper requires the more restrictive 86: 4826: 4413:{\displaystyle F^{\mathrm {harm} }} 4378:bound on the solutions, also gives 3333:{\displaystyle (\phi ,\nabla ^{A})} 3211:{\displaystyle \|\phi \|_{\infty }} 2121:{\displaystyle (\phi ,\nabla ^{A})} 2089:. The Seiberg–Witten equations for 1028:is skew Hermitian for real 1 forms 631:{\displaystyle W=W^{+}\oplus W^{-}} 121:The Spin group (in dimension 4) is 116: 13: 5083:(2000), Wentworth, Richard (ed.), 4404: 4401: 4398: 4395: 4181:{\displaystyle {\mathcal {H}}^{-}} 4167: 4103: 4079: 4076: 4073: 4070: 3946: 3943: 3940: 3937: 3922: 3919: 3916: 3913: 3892: 3889: 3886: 3883: 3589: 3576: 3459: 3456: 3453: 3318: 3203: 3146: 2949: 2917: 2864: 2831: 2814: 2765: 2646: 2629: 2532: 2294: 2286:is the closed curvature 2-form of 2106: 1923: 1920: 1917: 1914: 1826: 1749: 1696: 1661: 1558: 1516: 1477: 1430: 1325: 1312: 1111: 1103: 797: 790: 766: 763: 760: 757: 754: 296: 159: 156: 153: 150: 14: 5198: 4420:. There are therefore (for fixed 4228:-admissible if this condition is 2613:of sufficiently high regularity. 59:) during their investigations of 5111:"Monopoles and four-manifolds." 4856:Graduate Studies in Mathematics 3542:, the reducible solutions have 19:In mathematics, and especially 5187:Partial differential equations 4848:Notes on Seiberg-Witten theory 4646: 4477: 4463: 4141: 4127: 4035: 4002: 3982: 3968: 3952: 3904: 3866: 3853: 3691:for some anti selfdual 2-form 3678: 3666: 3495: 3492: 3486: 3471: 3465: 3428: 3327: 3308: 3261: 3249: 3159: 3150: 3119: 3110: 3085: 3079: 3073: 3061: 3033: 3024: 3020: 3011: 2998: 2989: 2963: 2944: 2930: 2921: 2878: 2859: 2849: 2808: 2784: 2775: 2735: 2726: 2708: 2690: 2675: 2661: 2540:{\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}} 2414: 2402: 2381: 2369: 2355: 2273: 2267: 2202: 2196: 2115: 2096: 2026: 2020: 1997: 1991: 1958: 1944: 1909: 1894: 1834:{\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}} 1781: 1775: 1769: 1692: 1676: 1575: 1554: 1545: 1542: 1536: 1512: 1506: 1503: 1497: 1491: 1389: 1383: 1285: 1279: 1245: 1232: 1223: 1210: 1146: 1133: 1015: 1009: 946: 934: 916: 909: 876: 860: 854: 811: 805: 785: 782: 770: 707: 694: 678: 665: 568: 562: 525: 511: 478: 464: 428: 401: 385: 379: 201: 180: 172: 169: 163: 143: 137: 131: 109:). For the early history see ( 72:the moduli spaces of solutions 1: 5115:Mathematical Research Letters 4894:American Mathematical Society 4890:The wild world of 4-manifolds 4845:Nicolaescu, Liviu I. (2000), 4718:10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00625-8 4639: 3846:of the curvature form i.e. 3376:The moduli space of solutions 3344:, as these equations are the 1469:i.e. a connection such that 5058:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90214-3 5005:10.1016/0550-3213(94)00449-8 4960:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90124-4 4783:Moore, John Douglas (2001), 2160:{\displaystyle D^{A}\phi =0} 1071:{\displaystyle \wedge ^{*}M} 7: 4888:Scorpan, Alexandru (2005), 4834:Encyclopedia of Mathematics 4736:A revolution in mathematics 4311:{\displaystyle b_{+}\geq 2} 4258:{\displaystyle b^{+}\geq 1} 3416:Atiyah–Singer index theorem 3132:{\displaystyle |\phi |^{2}} 2306:{\displaystyle \nabla ^{A}} 1442:{\displaystyle \nabla ^{A}} 1186:which are then identified. 580:{\displaystyle w_{2}(M)=0.} 308:{\displaystyle \nabla ^{g}} 61:Seiberg–Witten gauge theory 10: 5203: 5145:10.4310/MRL.1994.v1.n6.a13 4829:"Seiberg-Witten equations" 4759:Princeton University Press 3844:(de Rham) cohomology class 3802:, is the harmonic part of 1297:{\displaystyle c_{1}(L)=K} 1021:{\displaystyle \gamma (a)} 824:such that for each 1 form 4677:21.11116/0000-0004-3A18-1 4494:Seiberg–Witten invariants 2338:{\displaystyle F_{A}^{+}} 25:Seiberg–Witten invariants 4556:is simply connected and 2576:{\displaystyle d^{*}A=0} 1870:{\displaystyle d^{*}A=0} 1304:. For every connection 1190:Seiberg–Witten equations 103:Gromov–Witten invariants 76:Seiberg–Witten equations 5109:Witten, Edward (1994), 4733:Jackson, Allyn (1995), 4433:{\displaystyle \omega } 4364:{\displaystyle b_{+}=1} 4278:{\displaystyle \omega } 4201:{\displaystyle \omega } 3835:{\displaystyle \omega } 3815:{\displaystyle \alpha } 3795:{\displaystyle \omega } 3775:{\displaystyle \alpha } 3704:{\displaystyle \alpha } 3561:{\displaystyle \phi =0} 3535:{\displaystyle \omega } 3522:For a self dual 2 form 3407:{\displaystyle \phi =0} 3287:{\displaystyle \omega } 3274:and the self dual form 2602:{\displaystyle \phi =0} 2516:{\displaystyle \omega } 1260:determinant line bundle 357:the existence of a lift 5081:Taubes, Clifford Henry 4550:simple type conjecture 4484: 4434: 4414: 4365: 4332: 4312: 4279: 4259: 4222: 4202: 4182: 4148: 4048: 3989: 3836: 3816: 3796: 3776: 3756: 3736: 3705: 3685: 3628: 3608: 3562: 3536: 3510: 3408: 3366: 3334: 3288: 3268: 3236: 3212: 3179: 3133: 3092: 2898: 2745: 2603: 2577: 2541: 2517: 2497: 2470: 2443: 2339: 2307: 2280: 2218: 2161: 2122: 2083: 2056: 2033: 2004: 1871: 1835: 1811: 1791: 1734: 1714: 1622: 1602: 1582: 1463: 1443: 1416: 1396: 1344: 1298: 1252: 1180: 1153: 1072: 1042: 1022: 993: 973: 953: 893: 838: 818: 734: 714: 632: 581: 535: 488: 435: 349: 321:complex spin structure 309: 287:Levi Civita connection 279: 249: 211: 4761:, pp. viii+128, 4485: 4440:) only finitely many 4435: 4415: 4366: 4333: 4313: 4280: 4260: 4223: 4203: 4183: 4149: 4049: 3990: 3837: 3817: 3797: 3777: 3757: 3737: 3735:{\displaystyle F_{0}} 3706: 3686: 3629: 3609: 3563: 3537: 3511: 3409: 3367: 3335: 3289: 3269: 3267:{\displaystyle (M,g)} 3237: 3213: 3180: 3134: 3093: 2899: 2746: 2604: 2578: 2542: 2518: 2498: 2496:{\displaystyle W^{+}} 2471: 2469:{\displaystyle W^{+}} 2444: 2340: 2308: 2281: 2219: 2162: 2123: 2084: 2082:{\displaystyle W^{+}} 2057: 2055:{\displaystyle \phi } 2039:gauge group action. 2034: 2005: 1872: 1836: 1812: 1792: 1735: 1715: 1623: 1603: 1583: 1464: 1444: 1417: 1397: 1345: 1299: 1253: 1181: 1179:{\displaystyle W^{+}} 1154: 1073: 1043: 1023: 994: 974: 954: 894: 839: 819: 735: 720:. The spinor bundle 715: 633: 582: 536: 489: 436: 361:Stiefel–Whitney class 350: 310: 280: 250: 212: 41:Seiberg–Witten theory 16:4-manifold invariants 4991:(2): 485–486, 1994, 4444: 4424: 4386: 4342: 4322: 4289: 4269: 4236: 4212: 4192: 4161: 4061: 3999: 3850: 3826: 3806: 3786: 3766: 3746: 3719: 3695: 3638: 3618: 3572: 3546: 3526: 3425: 3392: 3356: 3305: 3278: 3246: 3226: 3189: 3143: 3106: 2914: 2761: 2623: 2587: 2551: 2527: 2507: 2480: 2453: 2349: 2317: 2290: 2231: 2172: 2135: 2093: 2066: 2046: 2032:{\displaystyle U(1)} 2014: 1881: 1845: 1821: 1801: 1744: 1740:. The group of maps 1724: 1632: 1612: 1592: 1473: 1453: 1426: 1406: 1354: 1308: 1266: 1198: 1163: 1082: 1052: 1032: 1003: 983: 963: 903: 848: 828: 744: 724: 646: 596: 549: 498: 445: 366: 339: 292: 269: 224: 128: 68:Donaldson invariants 5137:1994MRLet...1..769W 5050:1994NuPhB.431..484S 4997:1994NuPhB.430..485. 4952:1994NuPhB.426...19S 4827:Nash, Ch. (2001) , 4699:Donaldson, Simon K. 3897: 3713:Hodge decomposition 2798: 2725: 2334: 2266: 2189: 1990: 1709: 1571: 1529: 1490: 1382: 1132: 4803:10.1007/BFb0092948 4668:10.1007/BF01362296 4480: 4430: 4410: 4361: 4328: 4308: 4275: 4255: 4218: 4198: 4178: 4144: 4047:{\displaystyle =K} 4044: 4023: 3995:. Thus, since the 3985: 3872: 3832: 3812: 3792: 3772: 3752: 3732: 3701: 3681: 3624: 3604: 3558: 3532: 3506: 3404: 3362: 3350:magnetic monopoles 3330: 3284: 3264: 3232: 3208: 3175: 3129: 3088: 3056: 2986: 2894: 2782: 2741: 2711: 2703: 2599: 2573: 2537: 2513: 2493: 2466: 2439: 2397: 2335: 2320: 2303: 2276: 2250: 2214: 2175: 2157: 2118: 2079: 2052: 2029: 2000: 1974: 1867: 1831: 1807: 1787: 1730: 1710: 1695: 1618: 1598: 1578: 1557: 1515: 1476: 1459: 1439: 1412: 1392: 1366: 1340: 1294: 1248: 1176: 1149: 1108: 1068: 1038: 1018: 989: 969: 949: 889: 834: 814: 730: 710: 628: 577: 531: 484: 431: 345: 305: 275: 257:SO(4) = Spin(4)/±1 245: 207: 45:Nathan Seiberg 5094:978-1-57146-061-5 5028:Nuclear Physics B 4984:Nuclear Physics B 4929:Nuclear Physics B 4903:978-0-8218-3749-8 4873:978-0-8218-2145-9 4812:978-3-540-41221-2 4768:978-0-691-02597-1 4743:on April 26, 2010 4544:is said to be of 4331:{\displaystyle K} 4221:{\displaystyle K} 4022: 3755:{\displaystyle A} 3627:{\displaystyle L} 3365:{\displaystyle M} 3235:{\displaystyle s} 3055: 2985: 2754:and the identity 2702: 2396: 1810:{\displaystyle L} 1733:{\displaystyle W} 1621:{\displaystyle X} 1608:and vector field 1601:{\displaystyle a} 1588:for every 1-form 1462:{\displaystyle W} 1415:{\displaystyle L} 1041:{\displaystyle a} 992:{\displaystyle W} 972:{\displaystyle h} 837:{\displaystyle a} 733:{\displaystyle W} 348:{\displaystyle M} 278:{\displaystyle g} 264:Riemannian metric 33:Edward Witten 5194: 5168: 5163:, archived from 5130: 5105: 5076: 5043: 5015: 4978: 4945: 4914: 4884: 4853: 4841: 4823: 4796: 4779: 4744: 4739:, archived from 4729: 4720: 4690: 4689: 4679: 4650: 4636: ≥ 1. 4610:If the manifold 4592:If the manifold 4570:If the manifold 4489: 4487: 4486: 4481: 4476: 4462: 4461: 4439: 4437: 4436: 4431: 4419: 4417: 4416: 4411: 4409: 4408: 4407: 4370: 4368: 4367: 4362: 4354: 4353: 4337: 4335: 4334: 4329: 4317: 4315: 4314: 4309: 4301: 4300: 4285:. Note that, if 4284: 4282: 4281: 4276: 4264: 4262: 4261: 4256: 4248: 4247: 4227: 4225: 4224: 4219: 4207: 4205: 4204: 4199: 4187: 4185: 4184: 4179: 4177: 4176: 4171: 4170: 4153: 4151: 4150: 4145: 4140: 4126: 4125: 4113: 4112: 4107: 4106: 4084: 4083: 4082: 4053: 4051: 4050: 4045: 4034: 4033: 4024: 4021: 4007: 3994: 3992: 3991: 3986: 3981: 3967: 3966: 3951: 3950: 3949: 3927: 3926: 3925: 3896: 3895: 3880: 3865: 3864: 3841: 3839: 3838: 3833: 3821: 3819: 3818: 3813: 3801: 3799: 3798: 3793: 3781: 3779: 3778: 3773: 3761: 3759: 3758: 3753: 3741: 3739: 3738: 3733: 3731: 3730: 3710: 3708: 3707: 3702: 3690: 3688: 3687: 3682: 3650: 3649: 3633: 3631: 3630: 3625: 3613: 3611: 3610: 3605: 3597: 3596: 3584: 3583: 3567: 3565: 3564: 3559: 3541: 3539: 3538: 3533: 3515: 3513: 3512: 3507: 3502: 3464: 3463: 3462: 3440: 3439: 3413: 3411: 3410: 3405: 3371: 3369: 3368: 3363: 3352:on the manifold 3339: 3337: 3336: 3331: 3326: 3325: 3293: 3291: 3290: 3285: 3273: 3271: 3270: 3265: 3241: 3239: 3238: 3233: 3217: 3215: 3214: 3209: 3207: 3206: 3184: 3182: 3181: 3176: 3168: 3167: 3162: 3153: 3138: 3136: 3135: 3130: 3128: 3127: 3122: 3113: 3097: 3095: 3094: 3089: 3057: 3048: 3042: 3041: 3036: 3027: 3007: 3006: 3001: 2992: 2987: 2978: 2972: 2971: 2966: 2957: 2956: 2947: 2939: 2938: 2933: 2924: 2903: 2901: 2900: 2895: 2893: 2892: 2881: 2872: 2871: 2862: 2839: 2838: 2829: 2828: 2823: 2822: 2821: 2797: 2792: 2787: 2778: 2773: 2772: 2750: 2748: 2747: 2742: 2724: 2719: 2704: 2695: 2683: 2682: 2673: 2672: 2654: 2653: 2644: 2643: 2638: 2637: 2636: 2608: 2606: 2605: 2600: 2582: 2580: 2579: 2574: 2563: 2562: 2546: 2544: 2543: 2538: 2536: 2535: 2522: 2520: 2519: 2514: 2502: 2500: 2499: 2494: 2492: 2491: 2475: 2473: 2472: 2467: 2465: 2464: 2448: 2446: 2445: 2440: 2438: 2434: 2433: 2432: 2431: 2430: 2398: 2389: 2344: 2342: 2341: 2336: 2333: 2328: 2312: 2310: 2309: 2304: 2302: 2301: 2285: 2283: 2282: 2277: 2265: 2260: 2259: 2243: 2242: 2223: 2221: 2220: 2215: 2188: 2183: 2166: 2164: 2163: 2158: 2147: 2146: 2127: 2125: 2124: 2119: 2114: 2113: 2088: 2086: 2085: 2080: 2078: 2077: 2061: 2059: 2058: 2053: 2038: 2036: 2035: 2030: 2010:with a residual 2009: 2007: 2006: 2001: 1989: 1984: 1983: 1973: 1972: 1957: 1943: 1942: 1933: 1928: 1927: 1926: 1907: 1893: 1892: 1876: 1874: 1873: 1868: 1857: 1856: 1840: 1838: 1837: 1832: 1830: 1829: 1817:. 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5121:(6): 769–796, 5106: 5093: 5077: 5041:hep-th/9408099 5034:(3): 484–550, 5016: 4943:hep-th/9407087 4924:Witten, Edward 4916: 4902: 4885: 4872: 4842: 4824: 4811: 4780: 4767: 4745: 4730: 4692: 4691: 4662:(2): 156–172. 4644: 4643: 4641: 4638: 4633: 4618: 4600: 4578: 4560: 4530: 4506: 4495: 4492: 4479: 4475: 4471: 4468: 4465: 4460: 4456: 4452: 4449: 4429: 4406: 4403: 4400: 4397: 4392: 4360: 4357: 4352: 4348: 4327: 4307: 4304: 4299: 4295: 4274: 4254: 4251: 4246: 4242: 4217: 4197: 4175: 4169: 4155: 4154: 4143: 4139: 4135: 4132: 4129: 4124: 4120: 4116: 4111: 4105: 4099: 4096: 4093: 4090: 4087: 4081: 4078: 4075: 4072: 4067: 4043: 4040: 4037: 4032: 4028: 4020: 4017: 4014: 4010: 4004: 3984: 3980: 3976: 3973: 3970: 3965: 3961: 3957: 3954: 3948: 3945: 3942: 3939: 3934: 3930: 3924: 3921: 3918: 3915: 3910: 3906: 3903: 3900: 3894: 3891: 3888: 3885: 3879: 3875: 3871: 3868: 3863: 3859: 3855: 3831: 3811: 3791: 3771: 3751: 3729: 3725: 3700: 3680: 3677: 3674: 3671: 3668: 3665: 3662: 3659: 3656: 3653: 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Index

gauge theory
4-manifolds
Edward Witten
1994
Seiberg–Witten theory
Nathan Seiberg
Witten
1994a
1994b
Seiberg–Witten gauge theory
Donaldson invariants
the moduli spaces of solutions
Seiberg–Witten equations
Donaldson 1996
Moore 2001
Morgan 1996
Nicolaescu 2000
Scorpan 2005
Gromov–Witten invariants
Taubes 2000
Jackson 1995
SO(4) = Spin(4)/±1
Riemannian metric
Levi Civita connection
complex spin structure
Hirzebruch
Hopf
the existence of a lift
Stiefel–Whitney class
spin structure

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