English

Knots, sutures and excision

Geometric Topology 2008-07-31 v2

Abstract

We develop monopole and instanton Floer homology groups for balanced sutured manifolds. Applications include a new proof of Property P for knots.

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@article{arxiv.0807.4891,
  title  = {Knots, sutures and excision},
  author = {P. B. Kronheimer and T. S. Mrowka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4891},
  year   = {2008}
}

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71 pages, 9 figures

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