Rational surgery exact triangles in Heegaard Floer homology
Geometric Topology
2026-01-13 v1
Abstract
We construct a new family of surgery exact triangles in Heegaard Floer theory over the field with two elements. This family generalizes both Ozsv\'{a}th and Szab\'{o}'s - and -surgery exact triangles for positive integers and the author's recent 2-surgery exact triangle to all positive rational slopes. The construction reduces to a combinatorial problem that involves triangle and quadrilateral counting maps in a genus 1 Heegaard diagram. The main contribution of this paper is solving this combinatorial problem, which is particularly tricky for slopes ; one key idea is to use an involution that is closely related to the conjugation symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.2601.06654,
title = {Rational surgery exact triangles in Heegaard Floer homology},
author = {Gheehyun Nahm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06654},
year = {2026}
}
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55 pages, 15 figures, comments welcome!