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Heegaard Floer homology and splicing homology spheres

Geometric Topology 2019-07-29 v2

Abstract

We prove a basic inequality for the d-invariants of a splice of knots in homology spheres. As a result, we are able to prove a new relation on the rank of reduced Floer homology under maps between Seifert fibered homology spheres, improving results of the first and second authors. As a corollary, a degree one map between two aspherical Seifert homology spheres is homotopic to a homeomorphism if and only if the Heegaard Floer homologies are isomorphic.

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@article{arxiv.1904.03777,
  title  = {Heegaard Floer homology and splicing homology spheres},
  author = {Cagri Karakurt and Tye Lidman and Eamonn Tweedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03777},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures