Relative Seiberg-Witten and Ozsvath-Szabo 4-dimensional invariants with respect to embedded surfaces

2004-01-01
We study the invariants of surfaces in 4-manifolds extracted from the Seiberg-Witten and the Ozsvath-Szabo invariants of their fiber sums with auxiliary Lefschetz fibrations. Such invariants involve relative Spin_c structures and can be treated as refinements of the usual Seiberg-Witten and Ozsvath-Szabo invariants. We prove for instance the adjunction inequality for membranes, which estimates their genus.
arXiv
Citation Formats
S. Finashin, “Relative Seiberg-Witten and Ozsvath-Szabo 4-dimensional invariants with respect to embedded surfaces,” arXiv, no. No, pp. 1–18, 2004, Accessed: 00, 2025. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0401345v2.