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By recent results of Baker--Etnyre--Van Horn-Morris, a rational open book decomposition defines a compatible contact structure. We show that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant of such a contact structure can be computed in terms of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Matthew Hedden , Olga Plamenevskaya

We use the construction of unfolded Seiberg-Witten Floer spectra of general 3-manifolds defined in our previous paper to extend the notion of relative Bauer-Furuta invariants to general 4-manifolds with boundary. One of the main purposes of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Tirasan Khandhawit , Jianfeng Lin , Hirofumi Sasahira

We consider complements of standard Seifert surfaces of special alternating links. On these handlebodies, we use Honda's method to enumerate those tight contact structures whose dividing sets are isotopic to the link, and find their number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Tamás Kálmán , Daniel V. Mathews

In this paper, we show that the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o contact invariant $c^+(\xi)\in HF^+(-Y)$ of a contact 3-manifold $(Y,\xi)$ can be calculated combinatorially if $Y$ is the boundary of a certain type of plumbing $X$, and $\xi$ is induced by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Cagri Karakurt

Given a grid diagram for a knot or link K in $S^3$, we construct a filtered spectrum whose homology is the knot Floer homology of K. We conjecture that the filtered homotopy type of the spectrum is an invariant of K. Our construction does…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ciprian Manolescu , Sucharit Sarkar

For a Seifert fibered homology sphere we show that the q-series Z-hat invariant introduced by Gukov, Pei, Putrov and Vafa is a resummation of the Ohtsuki serie. We show that for every even level k there exists a full asymptotic expansion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , William Elbæk Mistegård

Manolescu correction terms are numerical invariants of homology three-spheres arising from $\mathrm{Pin}(2)$-equivariant Seiberg-Witten theory that contain information about homology cobordism. We discuss several constraints on these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Francesco Lin

We define invariants of null--homologous Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3--manifolds. The invariants are determined by elements of the knot Floer homology of the underlying smooth knot. We compute these invariants, and show that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Paolo Lisca , Peter Ozsváth , András I. Stipsicz , Zoltán Szabó

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 prove Furuta-type bounds for the intersection forms of spin cobordisms between homology 3-spheres. The bounds are in terms of a new numerical invariant of homology spheres, obtained from Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer K-theory.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Ciprian Manolescu

The (untwisted) oriented cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology assigns a complex $C_{F}(S)$ to a singular resolution $S$ of a knot $K$. Manolescu conjectured that when $S$ is in braid position, the homology $H_{*}(C_{F}(S))$ is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Nathan Dowlin

Given a Liouville manifold, we compute a Floer-homotopical invariant -- the complexification of the lift of symplectic cohomology to complex cobordism -- in terms of a classical Floer-theoretic invariant, namely, symplectic cohomology…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Kenneth Blakey , Noah Porcelli

In this thesis, we give a unification of the quantum WRT invariants. Given a rational homology 3-sphere M and a link L inside, we define the unified invariants, such that the evaluation of these invariants at a root of unity equals the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Irmgard Bühler

We classify tight contact structures on the small Seifert fibered 3--manifold M(-1; r_1, r_2, r_3) with r_i in (0,1) and r_1, r_2 \geq 1/2. The result is obtained by combining convex surface theory with computations of contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ghiggini , Paolo Lisca , Andras I. Stipsicz

Spectral invariant were introduced in Hamiltonian Floer homology by Viterbo, Oh, and Schwarz. We extend this concept to Rabinowitz Floer homology. As an application we derive new quantitative existence results for leaf-wise intersections.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Peter Albers , Urs Frauenfelder

Building on the algebraic framework developed by Hendricks, Manolescu, and Zemke, we introduce and study a set of Floer-theoretic invariants aimed at detecting corks. Our invariants obstruct the extension of a given involution over any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Irving Dai , Matthew Hedden , Abhishek Mallick

This paper realises the Khovanov homology of a link in the 3-sphere as a Lagrangian Floer cohomology group, establishing a conjecture of Seidel and the second author. The starting point is the previously established formality theorem for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Mohammed Abouzaid , Ivan Smith

We prove a conjecture of Migdail and Wehrli regarding the odd Khovanov cobordism maps associated to knotted spheres. Our key tool is Daemi's plane Floer homology, which we use in place of a Lee deformation. Continuing the analogy with Lee…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dean Spyropoulos , Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi , Chen Zhang

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

Inspired by the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o mixed invariant in ordinary Heegaard Floer theory, we define a mixed invariant $\Phi_{X, \mathfrak{s}}^{I}$ for closed, spin four-manifolds $(X, \mathfrak{s})$ using the cobordism maps on involutive…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Owen Brass