Furuta–Ohta and Seiberg–Witten invariant correspondence conjecture

A homology S1×S3S^1 \times S^3 is a smooth oriented 44-manifold with the integral homology of S1×S3S^1 \times S^3. A Z[Z]\mathbb Z[\mathbb Z] homology S1×S3S^1 \times S^3 additionally has an infinite cyclic cover with the integral homology of S3S^3. Let XX be such a manifold with a fixed orientation and homology orientation, and let λFO(X)\lambda_{\,\operatorname{FO}}(X) and λSW(X)\lambda_{\,\operatorname{SW}}(X) denote its Furuta–Ohta and Seiberg–Witten invariants, respectively.

Furuta–Ohta–Seiberg–Witten correspondence conjecture.

λFO(X)=λSW(X).\lambda_{\,\operatorname{FO}}(X)=-\lambda_{\,\operatorname{SW}}(X).

The conjecture proposes that the Donaldson-theoretic Furuta–Ohta invariant agrees, up to sign, with the Seiberg–Witten invariant constructed in the paper. The authors present evidence for this relationship, but no resolution is given here.

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Daniel Ruberman and Nikolai Saveliev, “Casson-type invariants from the Seiberg-Witten equations”, arXiv:1303.2273 (2013).

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