ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE

Vol. LXXVI, 2 (2007)
p. 247 - 256

On Symmetric Group S3 Actions on Spin 4-manifolds
Ximin Liu and Hongxia Li


Abstract.  Let X be a smooth, closed, connected spin 4-manifold with b1(X) = 0 and non-positive signature s(X). In this paper we use Seiberg-Witten theory to prove that if X admits an odd type symmetric group S3 action preserving the spin structure, then b2+(X) ³ |s(X)|/8 +3 under some non-degeneracy conditions. We also obtain some information about Ind~S3D, where ~S3 is the extension of S3 by Z2.

Keywords:  spin 4-manifolds, symmetric group, Seiberg-Witten theory.

AMS Subject classification.  57R57, 57M60, 57R15.

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