Algebra/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Matthew Stoffregen

Title: A Seiberg-Witten Floer stable homotopy type

Abstract: We give a brief introduction to Floer homology and homotopy, from the Seiberg-Witten point of view.  We will then discuss Manolescu's version of finite-dimensional approximation for rational homology spheres.  We prove that a version of finite-dimensional approximation for the Seiberg-Witten equations associates equivariant spectra to a large class of three-manifolds.  In the process we will also associate, to a cobordism of three-manifolds, a map between spectra.  We give some applications to intersection forms of four-manifolds with boundary. This is joint work with Hirofumi Sasahira.