PU(2) monopoles. III: Existence of gluing and obstruction maps

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Authors: Paul M. N. Feehan, Thomas G. Leness 

Abstract: This is the third installment in our series of articles (dg-ga/9712005, dg-ga/9710032) on the application of the PU(2) monopole equations to prove Witten's conjecture (hep-th/9411102) concerning the relation between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds. The moduli space of solutions to the PU(2) monopole equations provides a noncompact cobordism between links of compact moduli spaces of U(1) monopoles of Seiberg-Witten type and the moduli space of anti-self-dual SO(3) connections, which appear as singularities in this larger moduli space. In this paper we prove the first part of a general gluing theorem for PU(2) monopoles, with the proof of the second half to appear in a companion article. The ultimate purpose of the gluing theorem is to provide topological models for neighborhoods of ideal Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces appearing in lower levels of the Uhlenbeck compactification of the moduli space of PU(2) monopoles and thus permit calculations of their contributions to Donaldson invariants using the PU(2)-monopole cobordism.

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