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A flexible construction of equivariant Floer homology and applications

Symplectic Geometry 2017-05-17 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Seidel-Smith and Hendricks used equivariant Floer cohomology to define some spectral sequences from symplectic Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology. These spectral sequences give rise to Smith-type inequalities. Similar-looking spectral sequences have been defined by Lee, Bar-Natan, Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o, Lipshitz-Treumann, Szab\'o, Sarkar-Seed-Szab\'o, and others. In this paper we give another construction of equivariant Floer cohomology with respect to a finite group action and use it to prove some invariance properties of these spectral sequences; prove that some of these spectral sequences agree; improve Hendricks's Smith-type inequalities; give some theoretical and practical computability results for these spectral sequences; define some new spectral sequences conjecturally related to Sarkar-Seed-Szab\'o's; and introduce a new concordance homomorphism and concordance invariants. We also digress to prove invariance of Manolescu's reduced symplectic Khovanov homology.

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@article{arxiv.1510.02449,
  title  = {A flexible construction of equivariant Floer homology and applications},
  author = {Kristen Hendricks and Robert Lipshitz and Sucharit Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02449},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

90 pages, 18 figures. V2: corrections and improvements thanks to referees. Similar to published version