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In this chapter we recall basic definition, notions and results of Seiberg-Witten gauge theory. The introduction is not intended to be complete, we rather describe arguments most frequently used in the text. We also review a variant of the theory for 4-manifolds with contact type boundary, which setting turns out to be very useful in the study of contact topological problems. The last section is devoted to a discussion centering around the adjunction inequality. For a more complete discussion of the topics appearing in this chapter the reader is advised to turn to [21, 119, 126, 149].
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Ozbagci, B., Stipsicz, A.I. (2004). Appendix: Seiberg-Witten Invariants. In: Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces. Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10167-4_13
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