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Seiberg-Witten-Floer Theory for Homology 3-Spheres

dg-ga 2008-02-03 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We give the definition of the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology group for a homology 3-sphere. Its Euler characteristic number is a Casson-type invariant. For a four-manifold with boundary a homology sphere, a relative Seiberg-Witten invariant is defined taking values in the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology group, these relative Seiberg-Witten invariants are applied to certain homology spheres bounding Stein surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9602003,
  title  = {Seiberg-Witten-Floer Theory for Homology 3-Spheres},
  author = {Bai-Ling Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9602003},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

LaTex; 30 pages, fix some LaTex problems, cut one subsection, update the relation with equivariant Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology and one application to Stein surface with boundary