• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.463-469
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• 1996

We construct closed orientable four-manifolds which have nontrivial Seiberg-Witten invariants, but do not admit any symplectic structure.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.593-601
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• 2003

Let X be a 4-manifold obtained by gluing two symplectic 4-manifolds Xi, i = 1, 2, along embedded surfaces. Using the gradient flow of a functional on 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory along the cylindrical end, we study the Seiberg-Witten equations on X and have a product formula of Seiberg-Witten invariants on X from the ones on Xi, i = 1, 2.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.103-117
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• 2002

We consider the situation that ${\mathbb{Z}_p}\;=\;{\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}}$ acts freely on a closed oriented 4-manifold X with ${b_2}^{+}\;{\geq}\;2$. In this situation, we study the relation between the Seiberg-Witten invariants of X and those of the quotient manifold $X/{\mathbb{Z}}_p$. We prove that the invariants of X are equal to those of $X/{\mathbb{Z}}_p$ modulo p.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.431-440
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• 2002

Recently P. Ozsv$\'{a}$th Z. Szab$\'{o}$ proved higher type adjunction inequalities for embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds of non-simple type. The aim of this short paper is to give a simple and direct proof of such higher type adjunction inequalities for smoothly embedded surfaces with negative self-intersection number in smooth 4-manifolds of non-simple type. This will be achieved through a relation between the Seiberg-Witten invariants used to get adjunction inequalities of 4-manifolds of simple type and a blow-up formula.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.691-701
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• 2006

In this paper, we construct a new exotic smooth 4-manifold X which is homeomorphic, but not diffeomorphic, to ${\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{P}^2{\sharp}13\overline{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$. Moreover the manifold X has vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants for all $Spin^c$-structures of X and has no symplectic structure.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.675-689
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• 2010

For a closed symplectic 4-manifold X, let $Diff_0$(X) be the group of diffeomorphisms of X smoothly isotopic to the identity, and let Symp(X) be the subgroup of $Diff_0$(X) consisting of symplectic automorphisms. In this paper we show that for any finitely given collection of positive integers {$n_1$, $n_2$, $\ldots$, $n_k$} and any non-negative integer m, there exists a closed symplectic (or K$\ddot{a}$hler) 4-manifold X with $b_2^+$ (X) > m such that the homologies $H_i$ of the quotient space $Diff_0$(X)/Symp(X) over the rational coefficients are non-trivial for all odd degrees i = $2n_1$ - 1, $\ldots$, $2n_k$ - 1. The basic idea of this paper is to use the local invariants for symplectic 4-manifolds with contact boundary, which are extended from the invariants of Kronheimer for closed symplectic 4-manifolds, as well as the symplectic compactifications of Stein surfaces of Lisca and Mati$\acute{c}$.