On Casson-type instanton moduli spaces over negative definite four-manifolds

Details On Casson-type instanton moduli spaces over negative definite four-manifolds On Casson-type instanton moduli spaces over negative definite four-manifolds

2008-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/0802.4041v4

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

This version contains many improvements to the layout suggested by the referee; accepted for publication in Quarterly Journal

Scientific paper

10.1093/qmath/hap042

Recently Andrei Teleman considered instanton moduli spaces over negative definite four-manifolds $X$ with $b_2(X) \geq 1$. If $b_2(X)$ is divisible by four and $b_1(X) =1$ a gauge-theoretic invariant can be defined; it is a count of flat connections modulo the gauge group. Our first result shows that if such a moduli space is non-empty and the manifold admits a connected sum decomposition $X \cong X_1 # X_2$ then both $b_2(X_1)$ and $b_2(X_2)$ are divisible by four; this rules out a previously natural appearing source of 4-manifolds with non-empty moduli space. We give in some detail a construction of negative definite 4-manifolds which we expect will eventually provide examples of manifolds with non-empty moduli space.

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