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We show that a small Seifert fibered space with complementary legs does not symplectically bound a rational homology ball for at least one choice of orientation. In the case $e_0\leq -1$, we characterize when a small Seifert fibered space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 John B. Etnyre , Burak Ozbagci , Bülent Tosun

The theory of signature invariants of links in rational homology spheres is applied to covering links of homology boundary links. From patterns and Seifert matrices of homology boundary links, an explicit formula is derived to compute…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jae Choon Cha , Ki Hyoung Ko

Ghosh-Sivek-Zentner constructed degree-1 maps from certain rational homology solid tori to the twisted $I$-bundle over the Klein bottle. We show that these maps yield rank inequalities for Heegaard Floer homology. To do so, we use…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Fraser Binns , Sudipta Ghosh

We study the homology concordance group of knots in integer homology three-spheres which bound integer homology four-balls. Using knot Floer homology, we construct an infinite number of $\mathbb{Z}$-valued, linearly independent homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Irving Dai , Jennifer Hom , Matthew Stoffregen , Linh Truong

We use Heegaard Floer homology to obtain bounds on unknotting numbers. This is a generalisation of Ozsvath and Szabo's obstruction to unknotting number one. We determine the unknotting numbers of 9_10, 9_13, 9_35, 9_38, 10_53, 10_101 and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brendan Owens

We use the Heegaard Floer homology cobordism maps to obstruct the existence of a symplectic structure on the Akbulut-Kirby Mazur manifolds whose boundary is a Brieskorn sphere $Y$ among $\Sigma(2,3,13),$ $\Sigma(2,5,7)$ and $\Sigma(3,4,5)$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Alberto Cavallo

We compute the involutive Heegaard Floer homology of the family of three-manifolds obtained by plumbings along almost-rational graphs. (This includes all Seifert fibered homology spheres.) We also study the involutive Heegaard Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Irving Dai , Ciprian Manolescu

In this short note, we exhibit an infinite family of hyperbolic rational homology $3$--spheres which do not admit any fillable contact structures. We also note that most of these manifolds do admit tight contact structures.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Amey Kaloti , Bulent Tosun

We compute the connected Heegaard Floer homology (defined by Hendricks, Hom, and Lidman) for a large class of 3-manifolds, including all linear combinations of Seifert fibered homology spheres. We show that for such manifolds, the connected…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Irving Dai

Sarkar and Wang proved that the hat version of Heegaard Floer homology group of a closed oriented 3-manifold is combinatorial starting from an arbitrary nice Heegaard diagram and in fact every closed oriented 3-manifold admits such a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-13 Tolga Etgü , Burak Ozbagci

By using superisolated surface singularities whose link is a rational homology sphere we give counterexamples to some of the most important conjetures concernig invariants of normal surface singularities.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Luengo-Velasco , A. Melle-Hernandez , A. Nemethi

This is the beginning of an obstruction theory for deciding whether a map f:S^2 --> X^4 is homotopic to a topologically flat embedding, in the presence of fundamental group and in the absence of dual spheres. The first obstruction is Wall's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Rob Schneiderman , Peter Teichner

We study cohomological obstructions to equivariant unirationality, with special regard to actions of finite groups on del Pezzo surfaces and Fano threefolds.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Yuri Tschinkel , Zhijia Zhang

We explain how to use bordered algebras to compute a version of link Floer homology. As a corollary, we also give a fast computation of the Thuston polytope for links in the three-sphere.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

In this article, we completely classify torus bundles over the circle that bound 4-manifolds with the rational homology of the circle. Along the way, we classify certain integral surgeries along chain links that bound rational homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Jonathan Simone

We use monopole Floer homology to study the topology of the space of contact structures on a 3-manifold. Our main tool is a generalisation of the Kronheimer--Mrowka--Ozsv\'ath--Szab\'o contact invariant to an invariant for families of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Juan Muñoz-Echániz

We develop a version of Seiberg--Witten Floer cohomology/homotopy type for a spin$^c$ 4-manifold with boundary and with an involution which reverses the spin$^c$ structure, as well as a version of Floer cohomology/homotopy type for oriented…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Hokuto Konno , Jin Miyazawa , Masaki Taniguchi

The purpose of this paper is to give a survey of the various versions of Floer homology for manifolds with contact type boundary that have so far appeared in the literature. Under the name of ``Symplectic homology'' or ``Floer homology for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru Oancea

For the genus-$4$ Heegaard surface in the $3$-sphere, we present a sufficient condition for a non-separating weak reducing pair to be separated by a reducing sphere for the surface. As a consequence, we reduce the connectivity problem in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Sangbum Cho , Yuya Koda , Jung Hoon Lee

The goal of this paper is twofold: (i) define a symplectic Khovanov type homology for a transverse link in a fibered closed $3$-manifold $M$ (with an auxiliary choice of a homotopy class of loops that intersect each fiber once) and (ii)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Vincent Colin , Ko Honda , Yin Tian