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Gluing instantons on 4-manifolds with group action.

Contact gluing maps are shown to be equivalent in sutured Floer homology.

Let $G$ be a compact, simply connected simple Lie group. We give a construction of an equivariant gerbe with connection on $G$, with equivariant 3-curvature representing a generator of $H^3_G(G,\Z)$. Technical tools developed in this context include a gluing construction for gerbes and a theory of equivariant bundle ge…

This paper circulated previously in a draft version. Now, upon general request, it is about time to distribute the more detailed (and much longer) version. The main technical issues revolve around the fine structure of the compactification of the moduli spaces of flow lines and the obstruction bundle technique, with re…

New constraints on embedded spheres and projective planes in 4-manifolds from Seiberg-Witten theory.

Given a smooth, oriented, closed surface $Σ$ of genus zero, possibly with boundary, let $\tildeΣ \longrightarrow Σ$ be a given $G$-cover of $Σ$, where $G$ is a given finite group. Let $S_{n}$ denote the standard sphere with $n$ holes. There are many ways of gluing together several $G$-cover of $S_{n}$ to construct the …

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group, and $M$ a compact Hamiltonian $G$-space, with moment map $J$. For each $G$-equivariant Hermitian vector bundle $E$ over $M$, one has an associated twisted Spin-C Dirac operator, whose equivariant index is a symplectic invariant of $E$. In the present paper, we study gluing prop…

We prove a gluing formula for the families Seiberg-Witten invariants of families of $4$-manifolds obtained by fibrewise connected sum. Our formula expresses the families Seiberg-Witten invariants of such a connected sum family in terms of the ordinary Seiberg-Witten invariants of one of the summands, under certain assu…

In 1998, Goresky, Kottwitz, and MacPherson showed that for certain spaces X equipped with a torus action, the T-equivariant cohomology ring of X can be described by combinatorial data obtained from its orbit decomposition. Thus, their theory transforms calculations of the equivariant topology of X to those of the combi…

Models for self-equivalences and diffeomorphisms of manifolds.

Study of Seiberg-Witten invariants for 4-manifolds with group actions.

The data of a "2D field theory with a closed string compactification" is an equivariant chain level action of a cell decomposition of the union of all moduli spaces of punctured Riemann surfaces with each component compactified as a pseudomanifold with boundary. The axioms on the data are contained in the following ass…

Generative adversarial networks fix aliasing issues by making signals continuous.

New invariant connects symplectic fillings and contact structures.

This paper studies equivariant cohomology of slice groupoids using linearization theorems.

A contact stationary Legendrian submanifold of $S^{2n+1}$ is a Legendrian submanifold whose volume is stationary under contact deformations. The simplest contact stationary Legendrian submanifold (actually minimal and Legendrian) is the real, equatorial $n$-sphere $S_0$. This paper develops a method for constructing co…

The paper discusses conditions for gluing multiple Alexandrov spaces into an Alexandrov space.

Study on knots formed by gluing ellipses, defining gluing degree.

Constructs a TQFT for 3-manifolds and extends it to 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies.

Study geometry of surfaces glued along a curve.

Study of quantum decorated character stacks and their quantizations.

Paper glues characteristic data to Kerr spacetime, proving spacelike gluing.

We determine the adjoint trace field of gluings of general hyperbolic manifolds. This provides a new method to prove the nonarithmeticity of gluings, which can be applied to the classical construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro (and generalizations) as well as certain gluings of pieces of commensurable arithmetic …

In this paper, we explore the theme of orbifold stratified spaces and establish a general criterion for them to be smooth orbifolds. This criterion utilizes the notion of linear stratification on the gluing bundles for the orbifold stratified spaces. We introduce a concept of good gluing structure to ensure a smooth st…

The paper constructs gluing maps for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds.

Researchers prove a nonlinear gluing theorem for gravitational fields near static backgrounds.

Formulae connect heat kernels on glued manifolds.

Solves C^3 null gluing problem for Einstein vacuum equations.

Paper solves Einstein vacuum equations gluing problem with applications.

We survey known (and unknown) results about the behavior of Heegaard genus of 3-manifolds constructed via various gluings. The constructions we consider are (1) gluing together two 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary, (2) gluing together the boundary components of surface times I, and (3) gluing a handlebody to th…

Simplified proof of gluing formula for analytic torsion forms.

Constructs a solution operator for hyperbolic gluing in higher dimensions.

Study general hyperbolic gluings, proving quasi-arithmeticity of building blocks.

The paper classifies surfaces formed by quadrilateral gluings.

We present a gluing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants in the case of a triple product. This gluing formula is a simple case of a much more general gluing formula proved and stated using exploded manifolds. We present this simple case because it is relatively easy to explain without any knowledge of exploded manifold…

Adds charged black holes to de Sitter space.

This paper studies the associativity of gluing of trajectories in Morse theory. We show that the associativity of gluing follows from of the existence of compatible manifold with face structures on the compactified moduli spaces. Using our previous work, we obtain the associativity of gluing in certain cases. In partic…

Gluing theorem for collapsing warped-QAC Calabi-Yau manifolds verified.

Paper discusses gluing formula for zeta-determinants with Robin boundary condition.

Survey on gluing constructions under lower curvature bounds.

We study how a gluing construction, which produces compact manifolds with holonomy G_2 from matching pairs of asymptotically cylindrical G_2-manifolds, behaves under deformations. We show that the gluing construction defines a smooth map from a moduli space of gluing data to the moduli space of torsion-free G_2-structu…

Study gluing event horizons of Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes.

In a previous article we studied PGL(n,C)-representations of a 3-manifold via a generalization of Thurston's gluing equations. Neumann has proved some symplectic properties of Thurston's gluing equations that play an important role in recent developments of exact and perturbative Chern-Simons theory. In this paper, we …

We study gluings of asymptotically cylindrical special Lagrangian submanifolds in asymptotically cylindrical Calabi--Yau manifolds. We prove both that there is a well-defined gluing map, and, after reviewing the deformation theory for special Lagrangians, prove that this gluing map defines a local diffeomorphism from m…

Local gluing connects flow lines in finite time intervals.

In the previous article "Refined Analytic Torsion on Manifolds with Boundary" we have presented a construction of refined analytic torsion in the spirit of Braverman and Kappeler, which does apply to compact manifolds with and without boundary. We now derive a gluing formula for our construction, which can be viewed as…

The paper extends knot contact homology to tangles and proves a gluing formula.

Study gluing of Lorentzian length spaces and their causal ladder properties.