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We present a braid-theoretic approach to combinatorially computing knot Floer homology. To a knot or link K, which is braided about the standard disk open book decomposition for (S^3,\xi_std), we associate a corresponding multi-pointed nice…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Peter Lambert-Cole , Michaela Stone , David Shea Vela-Vick

This article is an exposition of a body of existing results, together with an announcement of recent results. We discuss a theory of polytopes associated to bipartite graphs and trinities, developed by K\'alm\'an, Postnikov and others. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Daniel V. Mathews

Given a grid presentation of a knot (or link) K in the three-sphere, we describe a Heegaard diagram for the knot complement in which the Heegaard surface is a torus and all elementary domains are squares. Using this diagram, we obtain a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath , Sucharit Sarkar

Lipshitz, Ozsv\'ath and Thurston defined a bordered Heegaard Floer invariant CFDA for 3-manifolds with two boundary components, including mapping cylinders for surface diffeomorphisms. We define a related invariant for certain 4-dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tova Brown

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 define Floer homology for a time-independent, or autonomous Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold with contact type boundary, under the assumption that its 1-periodic orbits are transversally nondegenerate. Our construction is based on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Frédéric Bourgeois , Alexandru Oancea

We use closed geodesics to construct and compute Bott-type Morse homology groups for the energy functional on the loop space of flat $n$-dimensional tori, $n\ge 1$, and Bott-type Floer cohomology groups for their cotangent bundles equipped…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Joa Weber

We resolve the long-standing problem of constructing the action of the operad of framed (stable) genus-$0$ curves on Hamiltonian Floer theory; this operad is equivalent to the framed $E_2$ operad. We formulate the construction in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Mohammed Abouzaid , Yoel Groman , Umut Varolgunes

We prove that the category of directed graphs and graph maps carries a cofibration category structure in which the weak equivalences are the graph maps inducing isomorphisms on path homology.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel Carranza , Brandon Doherty , Chris Kapulkin , Morgan Opie , Maru Sarazola , Liang Ze Wong

The Burau representation of braid groups and knot Floer homology share a link to the Fox calculus. We make this connection explicit, with the following outcome: if $B$ is the full Burau matrix of any braid, and $A$ is any square submatrix…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Joe Boninger

The aim of this article is to introduce invariants of oriented, smooth, closed four-manifolds, built using the Floer homology theories defined in two earlier papers (math.SG/0101206 and math.SG/0105202). This four-dimensional theory also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter S Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

In this article, the authors review what the Floer homology is and what it does in symplectic geometry both in the closed string and in the open string context. In the first case, the authors will explain how the chain level Floer theory…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yong-Geun Oh , Kenji Fukaya

We construct absolute and relative versions of Hamiltonian Floer homology algebras for strongly semi-positive compact symplectic manifolds with convex boundary, where the ring structures are given by the appropriate versions of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Sergei Lanzat

By a well-known theorem of Viterbo, the symplectic homology of the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold is isomorphic to the homology of its loop space. In this paper we extend the scope of this isomorphism in several directions. First, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Kai Cieliebak , Nancy Hingston , Alexandru Oancea

We study alternating strand diagrams on the disk with an orbifold point. These are quotients by rotation of Postnikov diagrams on the disk, and we call them orbifold diagrams. We associate a quiver with potential to each orbifold diagram,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Karin Baur , Andrea Pasquali , Diego Velasco

This paper is the sequel to "The equivalence of Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology via open book decompositions I" and is devoted to proving some of the technical parts of the HF=ECH isomorphism.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Vincent Colin , Paolo Ghiggini , Ko Honda

We construct geometric maps from the cyclic homology groups of the (compact or wrapped) Fukaya category to the corresponding $S^1$-equivariant (Floer/quantum or symplectic) cohomology groups, which are natural with respect to all Gysin and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Sheel Ganatra

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

These lecture notes are a friendly introduction to monopole Floer homology. We discuss the relevant differential geometry and Morse theory involved in the definition. After developing the relation with the four-dimensional theory, our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Francesco Lin

A kind of unstable homotopy theory on the category of associative rings (without unit) is developed. There are the notions of fibrations, homotopy (in the sense of Karoubi), path spaces, Puppe sequences, etc. One introduces the notion of a…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grigory Garkusha