On the Frøyshov invariant and monopole Lefschetz number (Q6158177)

In this paper, the authors study the action of certain involutions on monopole Floer homology. Let \(L\) be a link in \(S^3\) such that the branched double cover \(\Sigma_2(L)\) is a rational homology sphere. Let \(\tau: Y\rightarrow Y\) be the covering involution and \(\tau_*\) the induced map on the reduced monopole Floer homology. The authors prove, \[\textrm{Lef}(\tau_*)=\frac{2^{|L|}}{16}\xi(L)-\sum_{s \in \textrm{Spin}(\Sigma_2(L))}h(\Sigma_2(L),s),\] where \(\textrm{Lef}\) is the Lefschetz number, \(|L|\) is the number of components of \(L\), \(\xi(L)\) is the Murasugi signature, and \(h(\Sigma_2(L),s)\) is the Frøyshov invariant for the \(\textrm{Spin}^c\) structure \(s\).