An adjunction inequality for the Bauer-Furuta type invariants, with applications to sliceness and 4-manifold topology

N Iida, A Mukherjee, M Taniguchi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02076, 2021 - arxiv.org
N Iida, A Mukherjee, M Taniguchi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02076, 2021arxiv.org
Our main result gives an adjunction inequality for embedded surfaces in certain $4 $-
manifolds with contact boundary under a non-vanishing assumption on the Bauer--Furuta
type invariants. Using this, we give infinitely many knots in $ S^ 3$ that are not smoothly H-
slice (that is, bounding a null-homologous disk) in many $4 $-manifolds but they are
topologically H-slice. In particular, we give such knots in the boundaries of the punctured
elliptic surfaces $ E (2n) $. In addition, we give obstructions to codimension-0 orientation …
Our main result gives an adjunction inequality for embedded surfaces in certain -manifolds with contact boundary under a non-vanishing assumption on the Bauer--Furuta type invariants. Using this, we give infinitely many knots in that are not smoothly H-slice (that is, bounding a null-homologous disk) in many -manifolds but they are topologically H-slice. In particular, we give such knots in the boundaries of the punctured elliptic surfaces . In addition, we give obstructions to codimension-0 orientation-reversing embedding of weak symplectic fillings with into closed symplectic 4-manifolds with and mod . From here we prove a Bennequin type inequality for symplectic caps of . We also show that any weakly symplectically fillable -manifold bounds a -manifold with at least two smooth structures.
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