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Ehrhart theory of
polytopes and Seiberg–Witten invariants of plumbed
$3$–manifolds
Tamás László and András Némethi |
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Geometry & Topology 18 (2014) 717–778
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Abstract |
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Let be a rational homology sphere plumbed –manifold associated with a connected negative-definite plumbing graph. We show that its Seiberg–Witten invariants equal certain coefficients of an equivariant multivariable Ehrhart polynomial. For this, we construct the corresponding polytope from the plumbing graph together with an action of and we develop Ehrhart theory for them. At an intermediate level we define the ‘periodic constant’ of multivariable series and establish their properties. In this way, one identifies the Seiberg–Witten invariant of a plumbed –manifold, the periodic constant of its ‘combinatorial zeta function’ and a coefficient of the associated Ehrhart polynomial. We make detailed presentations for graphs with at most two nodes. The two node case has surprising connections with the theory of affine monoids of rank two. |
Keywords
$3$–manifolds, $\mathbb{Q}$–homology spheres, plumbed
$3$–manifolds, Seiberg–Witten invariant, Ehrhart theory,
equivariant Ehrhart polynomials, affine monoids, polytopes,
periodic constant, surface singularities
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 14E15, 57M27
Secondary: 52B20, 06F05, 57R57
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Publication
Received: 22 November 2012
Revised: 10 June 2013
Accepted: 19 July 2013
Published: 20 March 2014
Proposed: Ronald Stern
Seconded: Ronald Fintushel, Simon Donaldson
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Authors |
| Tamás László | |
| Central European University Nador u. 9 1051 Budapest Hungary |
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| http://www.renyi.hu/~ltamas | |
| András Némethi | |
| MTA Rényi Institute of
Mathematics Reáltanoda u. 13-15 1053 Budapest Hungary |
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| http://www.renyi.hu/~nemethi | |
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