The infinitesimal multiplicities and orientations of the blow-up set of the Seiberg-Witten equation with multiple spinors (Q1711911)

Let $M$ be a closed oriented Riemannian three-manifold. Denote by $S\hspace{-7pt} /$ the spinor bundle associated with a fixed Spin-structure on $M.$ Also fix a $\mathrm{U}(1)$-bundle ${\mathscr L}$ over $M,$ a positive integer $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and an $\mathrm{SU}(n)$-bundle $E$ together with a connection $B.$ Consider triples $(A,\Psi,\tau)\in {\mathscr A({\mathscr L})}\times \Gamma(\text{Hom}(E, S\hspace{-7pt} / \otimes {\mathscr L}))$ consisting of a connection $A$ on ${\mathscr L},$ an $n$-tuple of twisted spinors $\Psi,$ and a positive number $\tau$ satisfying the \textit{Seiberg-Witten equation with $n$ spinors:} \[ \vert\vert\Psi\vert\vert_{L^2} = 1, \] \[ D/_{A\otimes B}\Psi = 0, \] and \[ \tau^{2}F_{A} = \mu(\Psi). \] Here $\mu(\Psi) = \Psi\Psi^{\ast}-\frac{1}{2}\vert\Psi\vert^{2}.$ A closed nowhere dense set $Z\subset M$ is called a blow-up set for the Seiberg-Witten equation with multiple spinors, if there is a solution $(A,\Psi,0)$ of the above equation defined over $M\setminus Z$ such that the following holds: (i) $\vert\Psi\vert$ extends as a Hölder-continuous function to all $M$ and $Z = \vert\Psi\vert^{-1}(0);$ (ii) $\int_{M\setminus Z}\vert\nabla^{A}\Psi\vert^2 <\infty.$ The main result of the paper under review is the following theorem: Let $Z$ be a blow-up set for the Seiberg-Witten equation with two spinors. The triple $(Z,\theta,or)$ determines a class $[Z,\theta,or]\in H^1(M,\mathbb{Z})$. This satisfies $[Z, \theta, or] = \text{PD}(c_1(L)),$ where $L = {\mathscr L}^2$ is the determinant line bundle and PD stands for the Poincaré dual class.