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A general Heegaard Floer surgery formula

Geometric Topology 2023-08-31 v1

Abstract

We give several new perspectives on the Heegaard Floer Dehn surgery formulas of Manolescu, Ozsv\'{a}th and Szab\'{o}. Our main result is a new exact triangle in the Fukaya category of the torus which gives a new proof of these formulas. This exact triangle is different from the one which appeared in Ozsv\'{a}th and Szab\'{o}'s original proof. This exact triangle simplifies a number of technical aspects in their proofs and also allows us to prove several new results. A first application is an extensions of the link surgery formula to arbitrary links in closed 3-manifolds, with no restrictions on the link being null-homologous. A second application is a proof that the modules for bordered manifolds with torus boundaries, defined by the author in a previous paper, are invariants. Another application is a simple proof of a version of the surgery formula which computes knot and link Floer complexes in terms of subcubes of the link surgery hypercube. As a final application, we show that the knot surgery algebra is homotopy equivalent to an endomorphism algebra of a sum of two decorated Lagrangians in the torus, mirroring a result of Auroux concerning the algebras of Lipshitz, Ozsv\'{a}th and Thurston.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15658,
  title  = {A general Heegaard Floer surgery formula},
  author = {Ian Zemke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15658},
  year   = {2023}
}

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91 pages

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