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The link surgery formula and equivariant surgeries

Geometric Topology 2025-07-18 v1

Abstract

We prove an equivariant version of the Heegaard Floer link surgery formula. As a special case, this gives an equivariant knot surgery formula for equivariant knots in S3S^3. Our proof goes by way of a naturality theorem for certain bordered modules described by the last author. As a sample application, we prove the kernel of the forgetful map from the equivariant homology cobordism group to the homology cobordism group contains a Z\Z^\infty-summand.

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@article{arxiv.2507.12809,
  title  = {The link surgery formula and equivariant surgeries},
  author = {Kristen Hendricks and Abhishek Mallick and Matthew Stoffregen and Ian Zemke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12809},
  year   = {2025}
}

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100 pages

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