Bordered manifolds with torus boundary and the link surgery formula
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a theory of bordered using the link surgery formula of Manolescu and Ozsv\'{a}th. We interpret their link surgery complexes as type- modules over an associative algebra , which we introduce. We prove a connected sum formula, which we interpret as an -tensor product over our algebra . Topologically, this connected sum formula may be viewed as a formula for gluing along torus boundary components. We compute several important examples. We show that the dual knot formula of Hedden--Levine and Eftekhary may be interpreted as the -bimodule for a particular diffeomorphism of the torus. As another example, if and are knots in , and is obtained by gluing the complements of and together using an orientation reversing diffeomorphism of their boundaries, then our theory may be used to compute from and . We additionally compute the type- modules for rationally framed solid tori. Our theory also computes the Heegaard Floer homology of all 3-manifolds which bound a plumbing of a tree of disk bundles over 2-spheres. In a subsequent article, we use this work to verify N\'{e}methi's conjecture about lattice homology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.11520,
title = {Bordered manifolds with torus boundary and the link surgery formula},
author = {Ian Zemke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11520},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
196 pages. v6: Additional corrections and improvements in response to a referee report