English

Heegaard Floer correction terms, with a twist

Geometric Topology 2016-09-27 v2

Abstract

We use Heegaard Floer homology with twisted coefficients to define numerical invariants for arbitrary closed 3-manifolds equipped torsion spinc^c structures, generalising the correction terms (or dd--invariants) defined by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o for integer homology 3-spheres and, more generally, for 3-manifolds with standard HF{\rm HF}^\infty. Our twisted correction terms share many properties with their untwisted analogues. In particular, they provide restrictions on the topology of 4-manifolds bounding a given 3-manifold.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.07401,
  title  = {Heegaard Floer correction terms, with a twist},
  author = {Stefan Behrens and Marco Golla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07401},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures; New proof of additivity (Proposition 3.7) based on a connected sum formula for twisted coefficients (Proposition 2.3); exposition improved, mainly in Section 4; Proposition 3.8 downgraded to an inequality due to an error in the previous version found by Adam Levine

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