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A Floer homology invariant for $3$-orbifolds via bordered Floer theory

Geometric Topology 2018-08-29 v1

Abstract

Using bordered Floer theory, we construct an invariant HFO^(Yorb)\widehat{\mathit{HFO}}(Y^{\text{orb}}) for 33-orbifolds YorbY^{\text{orb}} with singular set a knot that generalizes the hat flavor HF^(Y)\widehat{\mathit{HF}}(Y) of Heegaard Floer homology for closed 33-manifolds YY. We show that for a large class of 33-orbifolds, HFO^\widehat{\mathit{HFO}} behaves like HF^\widehat{\mathit{HF}} in that HFO^\widehat{\mathit{HFO}}, together with a relative Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-grading, categorifies the order of H1orbH_1^{\text{orb}}. When YorbY^{\text{orb}} arises as Dehn surgery on an integer-framed knot in S3S^3, we use the {1,0,1}\{-1,0,1\}-valued knot invariant ε\varepsilon to determine the relationship between HFO^(Yorb)\widehat{\mathit{HFO}}(Y^{\text{orb}}) and HF^(Y)\widehat{\mathit{HF}}(Y) of the 33-manifold YY underlying YorbY^{\text{orb}}.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09026,
  title  = {A Floer homology invariant for $3$-orbifolds via bordered Floer theory},
  author = {Biji Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09026},
  year   = {2018}
}

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28 pages, 16 figures, comments welcome!