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Monopoles and four-manifolds

Monopoles and four-manifolds

Recent developments in the understanding of N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions suggest a new point of view about Donaldson theory of four manifolds: instead of defining fourmanifold invariants by counting SU (2) instantons, one can define equivalent four-manifold invariants by counting solutions of a non-linear equation …