A Surgery Formula for the Casson-Seiberg-Witten Invariant of Integral Homology $S^1\times S^3$

Abstract

We prove a surgery formula of the Casson-Seiberg-Witten invariant of integral homology $S^1\times S^3$ along an embedded torus, which could either be regarded as an extension of the product formula for Seiberg-Witten invariants or a manifestation of the surgery exact triangle in $4$-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory of homology $S^1\times S^3$. As an application, we compute this invariant for mapping tori of $3$-manifolds under diffeomorphisms of finite order and fixed-point set being a simple closed curve. This computation generalizes the result of Lin-Ruberman-Saveliev.

56 pages, 2 figures