Using the path lattice cohomology we provide a conceptual topological characterization of the geometric genus for certain complex normal surface singularities with rational homology sphere links, which is uniformly valid for all superisolated and Newton non-degenerate hypersurface singularities.
Assume that is a connected negative definite plumbing graph, and that the associated plumbed 3-manifold is a rational homology sphere. We provide two new combinatorial formulae for the Seiberg–Witten invariant of . The first one is the constant term of a ‘multivariable Hilbert polynomial’, it reflects in a conceptual way the structure of the graph , and emphasizes the subtle parallelism between these topological invariants and the analytic invariants of normal surface singularities. The second...
We prove that Witten’s Conjecture [40] on the relationship between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten series for a four-manifold of Seiberg-Witten simple type with and odd follows from our -monopole cobordism formula [6] when the four-manifold has or is abundant.