Adjunction inequalities and the Davis hyperbolic four-manifold

Abstract

The Davis hyperbolic four-manifold $\mathcal{D}$ is not almost-complex, so that its Seiberg-Witten invariants corresponding to zero-dimensional moduli spaces are vanishing by definition. In this paper, we show that all the Seiberg-Witten invariants involving higher-dimensional moduli spaces also vanish. Our proof involves the adjunction inequalities corresponding to 864 genus two totally geodesic surfaces embedded inside $\mathcal{D}$.

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