Circle-valued Morse theory, Reidemeister torsion, and Seiberg-Witten invariants of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(98)00044-5MaRDI QIDQ1292703zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Hutchings, Yi-Jen Lee

Publication date 26 April 2001

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9612004, https://eudml.org/doc/120085

zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister torsion3-manifoldsSeiberg-Witten invariantscircle-valued Morse function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: Let X be a compact oriented Riemannian manifold and let $phi:Xo{S}^1$ be a circle-valued Morse function. Under some mild assumptions on $phi$, we prove a formula relating: (a) the number of closed orbits of the gradient flow of $phi$ of any given degree; (b) the torsion of a ``Morse complex, which counts gradient flow lines between critical points of $phi$; and (c) a kind of Reidemeister torsion of X determined by the homotopy class of $phi$. When $dim(X)=3$ and $b_1(X)>0$, we state a conjecture analogous to Taubes's ``SW=Gromov theorem, and we use it to deduce (for closed manifolds, modulo signs) the Meng-Taubes relation between the Seiberg- Witten invariants and the ``Milnor torsion of X.

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