A Morse-Bott Approach to Monopole Floer Homology and the Triangulation Conjecture

Download or read book A Morse-Bott Approach to Monopole Floer Homology and the Triangulation Conjecture written by Francesco Lin and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present work the author generalizes the construction of monopole Floer homology due to Kronheimer and Mrowka to the case of a gradient flow with Morse-Bott singularities. Focusing then on the special case of a three-manifold equipped equipped with a structure which is isomorphic to its conjugate, the author defines the counterpart in this context of Manolescu's recent Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology. In particular, the author provides an alternative approach to his disproof of the celebrated Triangulation conjecture.