A product formula for the Seiberg-Witten invariant along certain Seifert fibered manifolds (Q700534)

This paper develops the glueing theory for the Seiberg-Witten invariants when there is an splitting of a four-manifold as \(M=M_{1} \cup_{Y} M_{2}\) and \(Y\) is the Seifert fibered manifold over the sphere with \(4\) singular fibers, each of multiplicity \(2\) (so \(\chi(Y)=0\)). This is applied to compute the Seiberg-Witten invariants of the elliptic surfaces \(E(n)\), first given in [\textit{R. Fintushel} and \textit{R. J. Stern}, J. Differ. Geom. 46, No. 2, 181-235 (1997; Zbl 0896.57022)]. An alternative approach to the general glueing theory for Seiberg-Witten invariants has been carried out in [\textit{A. L. Carey} and \textit{B. L. Wang}, Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology and glueing formulae, to appear in Acta Mathematica Sinica English Series 19, No. 2 (2003)].