On Seiberg-Witten equationsοn symplectic 4-manifolds

Klaus Mohnke

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On Seiberg-Witten equationsοn symplectic 4-manifolds

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Institut für Reine Mathematik, Math.-Nat. Fakultät II, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ziegelstraße 13A, 10099 Berlin, Germany

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We discuss Taubes' idea to perturb the monopole equations on symplectic manifolds to compute the Seiberg-Witten invariants in the light of Witten's symmetry trick in the Kähler case.

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On Seiberg-Witten equationsοn symplectic 4-manifolds

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