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$3$–Manifolds without any embedding in symplectic $4$–manifolds

Aliakbar Daemi, Tye Lidman and Mike Miller Eismeier

Geometry & Topology 28 (2024) 3357–3372
Abstract

We show that there exist infinitely many closed 3–manifolds that do not embed in closed symplectic 4–manifolds, disproving a conjecture of Etnyre–Min–Mukherjee. To do this, we construct L–spaces that cannot bound positive- or negative-definite manifolds. The arguments use Heegaard Floer correction terms and instanton moduli spaces.

Keywords
$3$–manifold, definite $4$–manifold, symplectic $4$–manifolds, L–spaces, Chern–Simons invariant, instantons
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 57R57
Secondary: 57K43, 57R40
References
Publication
Received: 18 July 2022
Revised: 19 March 2023
Accepted: 19 May 2023
Published: 25 November 2024
Proposed: András I Stipsicz
Seconded: Dmitri Burago, Ciprian Manolescu
Authors
Aliakbar Daemi
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
United States
Tye Lidman
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
United States
Mike Miller Eismeier
Department of Mathematics
Columbia University
New York, NY
United States
Department of Mathematics
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
United States

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