Low-regularity Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces on manifolds with boundary

Abstract

For a compact spinc manifold $X$ with boundary $b_1(\partial X)=0$, we consider moduli spaces of solutions to the Seiberg-Witten equations in a generalized double Coulomb slice in $L_1^2$ (i.e., $W^{1,2}$) Sobolev regularity. We prove they are Hilbert manifolds, prove denseness and "semi-infinite-dimensionality" properties of the restriction to $\partial X$, and establish a gluing theorem. To achieve these, we prove a general regularity theorem and a strong unique continuation principle for Dirac operators, and smoothness of a restriction map to configurations of higher regularity on the interior, all of which are of independent interest.

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