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A natural family of potentially 2-torsion elements in the integer homology cobordism group consists of splices of knots with their mirrors. We show that such 3-manifolds have locally trivial involutive Floer homology. We show some related…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Kristen Hendricks , Matthew Stoffregen , Ian Zemke

For a given smooth $2$-knot in $S^4$, we relate the existence of a smooth Seifert hypersurface of a certain class to the existence of irreducible $ SU(2)$-representations of its knot group. For example, we see that any smooth $2$-knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Masaki Taniguchi

In this lecture we explain the intimate relationship between modular invariants in conformal field theory and braided subfactors in operator algebras. Our analysis is based on an approach to modular invariants using braided sector induction…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Böckenhauer , D. E. Evans

Given an oriented link in the 3-sphere, the Euler characteristic of its link Floer homology is known to coincide with its multivariate Alexander polynomial, an invariant only defined up to a sign and powers of the variables. In this paper,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Mounir Benheddi , David Cimasoni

Heegaard Floer theory is a kind of topological quantum field theory, assigning graded groups to closed, connected, oriented 3-manifolds and group homomorphisms to smooth, oriented 4-dimensional cobordisms. Bordered Heegaard Floer homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Robert Lipshitz , Peter S. Ozsvath , Dylan P. Thurston

In this article, we focus on the invariance property of Morse homology on noncompact manifolds. We expect to apply outcomes of this article to several types of Floer homology, thus we define Morse homology purely axiomatically and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Jungsoo Kang

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

In this short note we show how Dubrovin's integrable hierarchies, defined using the Gromov-Witten theory of a closed symplectic manifold, generalizes to Hamiltonian Floer theory. In particular, we show how the required generalization of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Oliver Fabert

Given a Liouville manifold $M$, we introduce an invariant of $M$ that we call the Heegaard Floer symplectic cohomology $SH^*_\kappa(M)$ for any $\kappa \ge 1$ that coincides with the symplectic cohomology for $\kappa=1$. Writing $\hat{M}$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Roman Krutowski , Tianyu Yuan

Using contact-geometric techniques and sutured Floer homology, we present an alternate formulation of the minus and plus version of knot Floer homology. We further show how natural constructions in the realm of contact geometry give rise to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 John B. Etnyre , David Shea Vela-Vick , Rumen Zarev

We generalize the Cohen-Jones-Segal construction to the Morse-Bott setting. In other words, we define framings for Morse-Bott analogues of flow categories and associate a stable homotopy type to this data. We use this to recover the stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Laurent Côté , Yusuf Barış Kartal

In arXiv:1911.08213 it was conjectured that the compactly supported cohomology of the $m$-th restricted contact locus of an isolated hypersurface singularity coincides, up to a shift, with the Floer cohomology of the $m$-th iterate of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Javier de la Bodega , Eduardo de Lorenzo Poza

We identify topological symmetric homology as the free $\mathbb{E}_\infty$-algebra on an $\mathbb{E}_1$-algebra and topological braid homology as the free $\mathbb{E}_2$-algebra on an $\mathbb{E}_1$-algebra. In this way, topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Gabriel Angelini-Knoll , David Chan , Teena Gerhardt , Mona Merling , Maximilien Péroux

We study the classification of slice disks of knots up to isotopy and diffeomorphism using an invariant in knot Floer homology. We compute the invariant of a slice disk obtained by deform-spinning, and show that it can be effectively used…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-12 András Juhász , Ian Zemke

We study possible configurations of singular points occuring on general algebraic curves in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via Floer theory. To achieve this, we describe a general formula for the $H_{1}$-action on the knot Floer complex of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-01 Maciej Borodzik , Beibei Liu , Ian Zemke

Braided quantum field theories proposed by Oeckl can provide a framework for defining quantum field theories having Hopf algebra symmetries. In quantum field theories, symmetries lead to non-perturbative relations among correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuya Sasai , Naoki Sasakura

We define combinatorial Floer homology of a transverse pair of noncontractibe nonisotopic embedded loops in an oriented 2-manifold without boundary, prove that it is invariant under isotopy, and prove that it is isomorphic to the original…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Vin de Silva , Joel Robbin , Dietmar Salamon

Various Seiberg-Witten Floer cohomologies are defined for a closed, oriented 3-manifold; and if it is the mapping torus of an area-preserving surface automorphism, it has an associated periodic Floer homology as defined by Michael…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Yi-Jen Lee , Clifford Henry Taubes

We establish a relationship between Heegaard Floer homology and the fractional Dehn twist coefficient of surface automorphisms. Specifically, we show that the rank of the Heegaard Floer homology of a 3-manifold bounds the absolute value of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Matthew Hedden , Thomas E. Mark

In this paper, we study the behavior of the local Floer homology of an isolated fixed point and the growth of the action gap under iterations. To be more specific, we prove that an isolated fixed point of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-18 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel