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We define four versions of equivariant instanton Floer homology ($I^+, I^-, I^\infty$ and $\widetilde I$) for a class of 3-manifolds and $SO(3)$-bundles over them including all rational homology spheres. These versions are analogous to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Mike Miller Eismeier

We show that the mod 2 Seiberg-Witten invariant can be determined for a spin manifold X which has the same homology groups as the 4-torus. The value depends on the structure of the cohomology ring of X, and in particular on the 4-fold cup…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Ruberman , Saso Strle

Starting from ideas of Furuta, we develop a general formalism for the construction of cohomotopy invariants associated with a certain class of $S^1$-equivariant non-linear maps between Hilbert bundles. Applied to the Seiberg-Witten map,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-14 Christian Okonek , Andrei Teleman

We define a Floer-homology invariant for knots in an oriented three-manifold, closely related to the holomorphic disk Floer homologies for three-manifolds defined in an earlier paper. We set up basic properties of these invariants,…

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

Floer homology is a good example of homological invariants living in the infinite dimension. We suggest a way to construct this kind of invariants using only soft essentially finite-dimensional tools; no hard analysis or PDE is involved.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Andrei Agrachev

We fix an orientation issue which appears in our previous paper about the isomorphism between Floer homology of cotangent bundles and loop space homology. When the second Stiefel-Whitney class of the underlying manifold does not vanish on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Alberto Abbondandolo , Matthias Schwarz

We construct bulk-deformed orbifold Hamiltonian Floer theory for a global quotient orbifold, that is the quotient of a smooth closed symplectic manifold by a finite group acting faithfully via symplectomorphisms. The moduli spaces define an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Cheuk Yu Mak , Sobhan Seyfaddini , Ivan Smith

We establish a satellite formula for the real Seiberg-Witten Floer homotopy types of knots with odd patterns. Using this, we derive several applications to knot concordance theory. The satellite formula follows from a version of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Jin Miyazawa , JungHwan Park , Masaki Taniguchi

We define a new homology theory we call symbol homology by using decorated moduli spaces of Whitney polygons. By decorating different types of moduli spaces we obtain different flavors of this homology theory together with morphisms between…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Bijan Sahamie

We unify two existing approaches to the tau invariants in instanton and monopole Floer theories, by identifying $\tau_{\mathrm{G}}$, defined by the second author via the minus flavors $\underline{\operatorname{KHI}}^-$ and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Sudipta Ghosh , Zhenkun Li , C. -M. Michael Wong

We construct a filtration by ideals on quantum cohomology for symplectic manifolds with a Hamiltonian $S^1$-action that extends to a pseudoholomorphic $\mathbb{C}^*$-action. These spaces include all Conical Symplectic Resolutions, in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Alexander F. Ritter , Filip Živanović

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

In this paper we first develop various enhancements of the theory of spectral invariants of Hamiltonian Floer homology and of Entovi-Polterovich theory of spectral symplectic quasi-states and quasimorphisms by incorporating \emph{bulk…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Kenji Fukaya , Yong-Geun Oh , Hiroshi Ohta , Kaoru Ono

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

In this article we describe relations of the topology of closed 1-forms to the group theoretic invariants of Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz. Starting with a survey, we extend these Sigma invariants to finite CW- complexes and show that many…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-07 Michael Farber , Ross Geoghegan , Dirk Schuetz

Given an involution on a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ with quotient the $3$-sphere, we prove a formula for the Lefschetz number of the map induced by this involution in the reduced monopole Floer homology. This formula is motivated by a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Jianfeng Lin , Daniel Ruberman , Nikolai Saveliev

We prove that, like the Seiberg-Witten monopole homology, the Heegaard Floer homology for a three-manifold determines its Thurston norm. As a consequence, we show that knot Floer homology detects the genus of a knot. This leads to new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

These notes are based on the three lectures that one of the authors gave at Tsinghua University in the summer of 2023 as part of the workshop on Geometric Representation Theory and Applications. They contain an introduction to the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Mikhail Khovanov , Dmitry Solovyev

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 study exact orbifold fillings of contact manifolds using Floer theories. Motivated by Chen-Ruan's orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants, we define symplectic cohomology of an exact orbifold filling as a group using classical techniques, i.e.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Fabio Gironella , Zhengyi Zhou