Seiberg-Witten invariants for manifolds diffeomorphic outside a circle

Vidussi, Stefano

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05904-9

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.

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