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In Section 1 we recall the definition of spinc structures on 3-manifolds and show that they are essentially equivalent to the Euler structures. In Section 2 we briefly discuss the Seiberg-Witten invariants and their relations to the torsion. In Section 3 we consider spin structures on 3-manifolds and their relations to spinc structures.
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Turaev, V. (2002). Spinc Structures. In: Torsions of 3-dimensional Manifolds. Progress in Mathematics, vol 208. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7999-6_11
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