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We briefly review some basic notions of 3-manifold topology. We refer the reader to [31] for a brief but informative overview.
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Marcolli, M. (1999). Seiberg—Witten on three-manifolds. In: Seiberg-Witten Gauge Theory. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 17. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-00-2_3
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