In this paper we announce that, for a connected, compact, oriented and homology oriented 3-manifold with nonzero first Betti number and vanishing Euler characteristic, a version of the Seiberg-Witten invariant is the same as the Milnor torsion invariant.
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Meng et al. (1996) studied this question.
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