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Mutation and gauge theory I: Yang-Mills invariants

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Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

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Mutation of 3-manifolds (cutting and regluing along a genus 2 surface using a central involution) is shown to preserve the instanton Floer homology of homology 3-spheres. A related operation on 4-manifolds is shown to preserve the Donaldson polynomial invariant.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254, USA, e-mail: ruberman@binah.cc.brandeis.edu, , , , , , US

    D. Ruberman

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Received: November 20, 1998.

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Ruberman, D. Mutation and gauge theory I: Yang-Mills invariants. Comment. Math. Helv. 74, 615–641 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000140050108

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