Rigidity of the mod 2 families Seiberg-Witten invariants and topology of families of spin 4-manifolds

2019/06/07 by Kato, Tsuyoshi, Konno, Hokuto, Nakamura, Nobuhiro
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.02943

Abstract

We show a rigidity theorem for the Seiberg-Witten invariants mod 2 for families of spin 4-manifolds. A mechanism of this rigidity theorem also gives a family version of 10/8-type inequality. As an application, we prove the existence of non-smoothable topological families of 4-manifolds whose fiber, base space, and total space are smoothable as manifolds. These non-smoothable topological families provide new examples of 4-manifolds M for which the inclusion maps Diff(M) \hookrightarrow Homeo(M) are not weak homotopy equivalences. We shall also give a new series of non-smoothable topological actions on some spin 4-manifolds.

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