scientific article; zbMATH DE number 139740
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0747.00024.] Let \(M\) be an oriented closed Riemannian 3-manifold and \(A\) a smooth connection on the principal bundle \(M\times\text{SU}(2)\). The operator \(D_ A(a,b)=(*d_ A a+d_ A b,d^*_ A a)\), where \(d_ A\) and \(*\) denote the covariant derivative with respect to \(A\) and the Hodge star operator respectively, can be extended to a self-adjoint Fredholm operator from the \(L^ 2_ 1\)-Sobolev norm completion of \((\Omega^ 1\oplus\Omega^ 0)(M)\otimes su(2)\) to the \(L^ 2\)-completion of it. Let \(\{A_ t\}_{0\leq t\leq 1}\) be a smooth path of smooth connections on \(M\times\text{SU}(2)\) with \(\text{Ker }D_{A_ 0}=\text{Ker }D_{A_ 1}=0\). Then the spectral flow of \(\{D_{A_ t}\}_{0\leq t\leq 1}\), \(SF(M,\{A_ t\})\), is defined. In the case that \(M\) is an integral homology 3-sphere, then \(\pmod 8\) reduction of \(SF(M,\{A_ t\})\) gives Floer's \(\pmod 8\) relative Morse index of the gauge equivalence classes \([A_ 0]\) and \([A_ 1]\) in the Chern-Simons-Morse theory on the space of the gauge equivalence classes of the connections on \(M\times \text{SU}(2)\). In Ann. Math., II. Ser. 134, No. 2, 277-323 (1991; Zbl 0748.57002), the author gave a formula for \(SF(M,\{A_ t\})\) under the situation in which \(M=M_ 1\cup M_ 2\) and \(M_ 1\cap M_ 2=\partial M_ 1=\partial M_ 2=\Sigma\) is an orientable closed surface of genus \(g\geq 2\) in terms of Maslov index of finite-dimensional symplectic geometry and calculated, as an application of this formula, the Floer homology group of those homology 3-spheres obtained by performing Dehn surgeries along the figure eight knot in \(S^ 3\). The purpose of the paper is to show that this method can be generalized to more general settings. (Theorem 2.1). A method to reduce calculations of spectral flow to simple diagram chasing is offered.
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