Topological Field Theories and formulae of Casson and Meng{Taubes
Topological Field Theories and formulae of Casson and Meng{Taubes
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Casson和Meng{Taubes的拓扑场论和公式
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1999
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S. Donaldson
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S. Donaldson
The goal of this paper is to give a new proof of a theorem of Meng and Taubes (9) that identies the Seiberg{Witten invariants of 3{manifolds with Milnor torsion. The point of view here will be that of topological quantum eld theory. In particular, we relate the Seiberg- Witten equations on a 3{manifold with the Abelian vortex equations on a Riemann surface. These techniques also give a new proof of the surgery formula for the Casson invariant, interpreted as an invariant of a homology S 2 S 1 . AMS Classication 57R57; 57M25, 57N10, 58D29