2019/10/23 by Haydys, Andriy
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.10436
This is lecture notes for a course given at the PCMI Summer School "Quantum Field Theory and Manifold Invariants" (July 1 -- July 5, 2019). I describe basics of gauge-theoretic approach to construction of invariants of manifolds. The main example considered here is the Seiberg--Witten gauge theory. However, I tried to present the material in a form, which is suitable for other gauge-theoretic invariants too.