The Seiberg-Witten invariants and 4-manifolds with essential tori

Geometry and Topology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2001, Pages 441-519

  Taubes, Clifford Henry ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gluing theorems; Seiberg witten invariants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001492294     PISSN: 14653060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2001.5.441     Document Type: Article

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