A monopole homology of integral homology 3-spheres

Abstract

To an integral homology 3-sphere $Y$, we assign a well-defined $\Z$-graded (monopole) homology $MH_*(Y, I_{\e}(\T; \e_0))$ whose construction in principle follows from the instanton Floer theory with the dependence of the spectral flow $I_{\e}(\T; \e_0)$, where $\T$ is the unique U(1)-reducible monopole of the Seiberg-Witten equation on $Y$ and $\e_0$ is a reference perturbation datum. The definition uses the moduli space of monopoles on $Y \x \R$ introduced by Seiberg-Witten in studying smooth 4-manifolds. We show that the monopole homology $MH_*(Y, I_{\e}(\T; \e_0))$ is invariant among Riemannian metrics with same $I_{\e}(\T; \e_0)$. This provides a chamber-like structure for the monopole homology of integral homology 3-spheres. The assigned function $MH_{SWF}: \{I_{\e}(\T; \e_0)\} \to \{MH_*(Y, I_{\e}(\T; \e_0))\}$ is a topological invariant (as Seiberg-Witten-Floer Theory).