Abstract
Geom. Topol. 9 (2005) 2079-2127 This is the third in our series of papers relating gauge theoretic invariants
of certain 4-manifolds with invariants of 3-manifolds derived from Rohlin's
theorem. Such relations are well-known in dimension three, starting with
Casson's integral lift of the Rohlin invariant of a homology sphere. We
consider two invariants of a spin 4-manifold that has the integral homology of
a 4-torus. The first is a degree zero Donaldson invariant, counting flat
connections on a certain SO(3)-bundle. The second, which depends on the choice
of a 1-dimensional cohomology class, is a combination of Rohlin invariants of a
3-manifold carrying the dual homology class. We prove that these invariants,
suitably normalized, agree modulo 2, by showing that they coincide with the
quadruple cup product of 1-dimensional cohomology classes.