Seiberg-Witten invariants for manifolds diffeomorphic outside a circle
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Abstract:
In this paper we prove that simple type four manifolds with $b_{2}^{+}>1$ which are diffeomorphic outside a point or outside a wedge of circles have the same Seiberg-Witten invariants, excluding the use of these invariants to detect eventual inequivalent smooth structures.References
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Additional Information
- Stefano Vidussi
- Affiliation: Centre de Mathématiques, UMR 7640 du CNRS, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
- Email: svidussi@math.uci.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 27, 1999
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 10, 1999
- Published electronically: December 28, 2000
- Additional Notes: The author would like to thank Stefano Demichelis for several discussions.
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2489-2496
- MSC (2000): Primary 57R57; Secondary 57Mxx
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05904-9
- MathSciNet review: 1823936