2022/06/06 by Nguyen, Minh Lam
#53C27 (Primary) #57R57 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.02907
We define a variant of the Seiberg-Witten equations using the Rarita-Schwinger operators for closed simply connected spin smooth 4-manifold X. The moduli space of solutions to the system of non-linear differential equations consist of harmonic 3/2-spinors and connections satisfying certain curvature condition. Beside having an obvious U(1)-symmetry, these equations also have a symmetry by Pin(2). We exploit this additional symmetry to perform finite dimensional approximations for the eigenvalue problem of the 3/2-monopole map and show that under a certain topological assumption, the moduli space of solutions is always non-compact, and thus non-empty.