English

Bordered manifolds with torus boundary and the link surgery formula

Geometric Topology 2025-02-19 v6

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a theory of bordered HF\mathit{HF}^- using the link surgery formula of Manolescu and Ozsv\'{a}th. We interpret their link surgery complexes as type-DD modules over an associative algebra K\mathcal{K}, which we introduce. We prove a connected sum formula, which we interpret as an AA_\infty-tensor product over our algebra K\mathcal{K}. 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 DADA-bimodule for a particular diffeomorphism of the torus. As another example, if K1K_1 and K2K_2 are knots in S3S^3, and YY is obtained by gluing the complements of K1K_1 and K2K_2 together using an orientation reversing diffeomorphism of their boundaries, then our theory may be used to compute CF(Y)\mathit{CF}^-(Y) from CFK(K1)\mathit{CFK}^\infty(K_1) and CFK(K2)\mathit{CFK}^\infty(K_2). We additionally compute the type-DD 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-24T06:16:12.683Z