Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology and gluing formulae

Carey, Alan; Wang, Bai-Ling

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Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology and gluing formulae

Date

2003

Authors

Carey, Alan

Wang, Bai-Ling

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

This paper gives a detailed construction of Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology for a closed oriented 3-manifold with a non-torsion Spinc structure. Gluing formulae for certain 4-dimensional manifolds splitting along an embedded 3-manifold are obtained.