Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 3, Issue 5, September 1996 pp. 661-674.

$\underline{SW}$ = Milnor Torsion

Authors: Guowu Meng and Clifford Henry Taubes
Author institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Harvard University

Summary: In this paper we announce that, for a connected, compact, oriented and homology oriented $3$-manifold with nonzero first Betti number and vanishing Euler characteristic, a version of the Seiberg-Witten invariant is the same as the Milnor torsion invariant.

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