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To an oriented closed 3-dimensional manifoldM withH 1(M, ℤ)=0, we assign a ℤ8-graded homology groupI *(M) whose Euler characteristic is twice Casson's invariant. The definition uses a construction on the space of instantons onM×ℝ.
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Floer, A. An instanton-invariant for 3-manifolds. Commun.Math. Phys. 118, 215–240 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01218578
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