Geometry & Topology Monographs 10 (2007) 147–154

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2007.10.147

arXiv: 0903.4457

Abstract

We prove a nilpotency theorem for the Bauer–Furuta stable homotopy Seiberg–Witten invariants for smooth closed 4–manifolds with trivial first Betti number.

Keywords

stable homotopy theory, nilpotency theorem, equivariant homotopy theory, 4–manifold theory, Bauer–Furuta–Seiberg–Witten invariants

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 55P91, 57R57

Secondary: 55P42, 57M50

References

Publication

Received: 1 January 2005
Revised: 5 January 2006
Published: 29 January 2007

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