Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology of a surface times a circle for non-torsion spinℂstructures

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Abstract: We determine the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology groups of the three-manifold which is the product of a surface of genus ggeq1 times the circle, together with its ring structure, for spin-c structures which are non-trivial on the three-manifold. We give applications to computing Seiberg-Witten invariants of four-manifolds which are connected sums along surfaces and also we reprove the higher type adjunction inequalities previously obtained by Oszv'ath and Szab'o.


The authors study the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology groups of the 3-manifold \(\Sigma\times S^1\), where \(\Sigma\) is a surface of genus \(g\). They compute the Seiberg-Witten-Floer groups of these manifolds, and give a complete determination of their ring structure, for any \(\text{Spin}^{\mathbf C}\) structure with non-vanishing first Chern class. This study is motivated by considerations of closed 4-manifolds, as the computation of these groups is a necessary ingredient in the description of the Seiberg-Witten invariants for a closed 4-manifold obtained as a normal connected sum along surfaces with self-intersection number zero. The authors give applications to computing Seiberg-Witten invariants in this setting. In the final section, they give a different proof of the higher type adjunction inequalities obtained by \textit{P. Oszváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó} [J. Differ. Geom. 55, 385--440 (2000; Zbl 1028.57031)].











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