A gluing formula for the Seiberg-Witten invariant along \(T^3\) (Q1396336)

Let \(X\) be a compact, smooth, oriented \(4\)-manifold which is written as \(X_{1}\cup X_{2}\), where \(X_{i}\) are \(4\)-manifolds with boundary a \(3\)-torus. This paper studies the Seiberg-Witten invariants of such \(X\) by defining a relative Seiberg-Witten invariant for \(X_{i}\) and proving a gluing formula. Similar formulas have appeared in [\textit{A. Carey} and \textit{B.-L. Wang}, Acta Math. Sin., Engl. Ser. 19, 245-492 (2003; Zbl 1041.57013), \textit{J. W. Morgan, T. S. Mrowka} and \textit{Z. Szabó}, Math. Res. Lett. 4, 915-929 (1997; Zbl 0892.57021), \textit{C. Taubes}, Geom. Topol. 5, 441-519 (2001)]. As an application, \(4\)-manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to elliptic surfaces are constructed with a technique of \textit{R. Fintushel} and \textit{R. Stern} [Invent. Math. 134, 363-400 (1998; Zbl 0914.57015)].