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We evaluate the impact factor of the transition gamma* -> rhoT taking into account the twist 3 contributions. We show that a gauge invariant expression is obtained with the help of QCD equations of motion. Our results are free of end-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Anikin , D. Yu. Ivanov , B. Pire , L. Szymanowski , S. Wallon

We use monopole Floer homology for sutured manifolds to construct invariants of Legendrian knots in a contact 3-manifold. These invariants assign to a knot K in Y elements of the monopole knot homology KHM(-Y,K), and they strongly resemble…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Steven Sivek

Using the conjugation symmetry on Heegaard Floer complexes, we define a three-manifold invariant called involutive Heegaard Floer homology, which is meant to correspond to $\mathbb{Z}_4$-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology. Further,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Kristen Hendricks , Ciprian Manolescu

We give combinatorial descriptions of the Heegaard Floer homology groups for arbitrary three-manifolds (with coefficients in Z/2). The descriptions are based on presenting the three-manifold as an integer surgery on a link in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath , Dylan Thurston

We give a short introduction to the theory of twisted Alexander polynomials of a 3--manifold associated to a representation of its fundamental group. We summarize their formal properties and we explain their relationship to twisted…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Stefan Friedl , Stefano Vidussi

We define an invariant of contact structures in dimension three from Heegaard Floer homology. This invariant takes values in the set $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}\cup\{\infty\}$. It is zero for overtwisted contact structures, $\infty$ for Stein…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Cagatay Kutluhan , Gordana Matic , Jeremy Van Horn-Morris , Andy Wand

Seiberg-Witten (Floer) theory, Ozsvath-Szabo's Heegaard Floer theory, Hutchings's embedded contact homology, in different stages of development, define (or are expected to define) packages of invariants for 3- and 4-manifolds (including…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Yi-Jen Lee

We use Heegaard Floer homology to define an invariant of homology cobordism. This invariant is isomorphic to a summand of the reduced Heegaard Floer homology of a rational homology sphere equipped with a spin structure and is analogous to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Kristen Hendricks , Jennifer Hom , Tye Lidman

Using the knot Floer homology filtration, we define invariants associated to a knot in a three-manifold possessing non-vanishing Floer co(homology) classes. In the case of the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant we obtain an invariant of knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-06 Matthew Hedden

We define an invariant of three-manifolds with an involution with non-empty fixed point set of codimension $2$; in particular, this applies to double branched covers over knots. Our construction gives the Heegaard Floer analogue of Li's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Gary Guth , Ciprian Manolescu

In joint work with J. Rasmussen, we gave an interpretation of Heegaard Floer homology for manifolds with torus boundary in terms of immersed curves in a punctured torus. In particular, knot Floer homology is captured by this invariant.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jonathan Hanselman , Liam Watson

We recently defined an invariant of contact manifolds with convex boundary in Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory. Here, we prove that there is an isomorphism between sutured monopole Floer homology and sutured…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-21 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We survey the different versions of Floer homology that can be associated to three-manifolds. We also discuss their applications, particularly to questions about surgery, homology cobordism, and four-manifolds with boundary. We then…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Ciprian Manolescu

A three-manifold equipped with a Heegaard diagram can be used to set up a Floer homology theory whose differential counts pseudo-holomorphic disks in the $g$-fold symmetric product of the Heegaard surface. This leads to a topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

Q-Gorenstein toric contact manifolds provide an interesting class of examples of contact manifolds with torsion first Chern class. They are completely determined by certain rational convex polytopes, called toric diagrams, and arise both as…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini , Miguel Moreira

We give a possible generalization of Lutz twist to all dimensions. This reproves the fact that every contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure and also shows great flexibility in the manifolds that can be realized as…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-23 John B. Etnyre , Dishant M. Pancholi

We compute the Heegaard Floer homology of $S^3_1(K)$ (the (+1) surgery on the torus knot $T_{p,q}$) in terms of the semigroup generated by $p$ and $q$, and we find a compact formula (involving Dedekind sums) for the corresponding…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-30 Maciej Borodzik , András Némethi

We utilize the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant to detect the action of involutions on certain homology spheres that are surgeries on symmetric links, generalizing a previous result of Akbulut and Durusoy. Potentially this may be useful to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Selman Akbulut , Cagri Karakurt

We provide a combinatorial definition of a bordered Floer theory with $\mathbb Z$ coefficients for manifolds with torus boundary. Our bordered Floer structures recover the combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology defined by Ozsv\'ath,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Douglas Knowles , Ina Petkova

Bordered Floer homology assigns invariants to 3-manifolds with boundary, such that the Heegaard Floer homology of a closed 3-manifold, split into two pieces, can be recovered as a tensor product of the bordered invariants of the pieces. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Christopher L. Douglas , Robert Lipshitz , Ciprian Manolescu