nLab Dieter Kotschick

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Selected writings

On smooth structures on the Barlow surface:

• Dieter Kotschick, On manifolds homeomorphic to $\mathbb{C}P^2\#8\overline{\mathbb{C}P^2}$, Invent. Math. 95 3, pp. 591-600 (1989) [doi:10.1007/BF01393892]

On Seiberg-Witten invariants and symplectic manifolds:

• Dieter Kotschick, The Seiberg-Witten invariants of symplectic four-manifolds (1995) [pdf]

• Dieter Kotschick, John Morgan, and Clifford Taubes, Four-Manifold without symplectic structure but with non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariants, Mathematical Research Letters 2, pp. 119–124 (1995) [doi:10.4310/MRL.1995.v2.n2.a1 pdf]

Review:

• Dieter Kotschick, Gauge Theory Is Dead!—Long Live Gauge Theory!, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42, pp. 335-338 (1995) [pdf]

On the birth of the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem:

• Dieter Kotschick: 1953, The Institute Letter, IAS (2013) [online]

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