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Bordered Floer homology and contact structures

Geometric Topology 2023-03-14 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a contact invariant in the bordered sutured Heegaard Floer homology of a three-manifold with boundary. The input for the invariant is a contact manifold (M,ξ,F)(M, \xi, \mathcal{F}) whose convex boundary is equipped with a signed singular foliation F\mathcal{F} closely related to the characteristic foliation. Such a manifold admits a family of foliated open book decompositions classified by a Giroux Correspondence, as described in earlier work of Licata and V\'ertesi. We use a special class of foliated open books to construct admissible bordered sutured Heegaard diagrams and identify well-defined classes cDc_D and cAc_A in the corresponding bordered sutured modules. Foliated open books exhibit user-friendly gluing behavior, and we show that the pairing on invariants induced by gluing compatible foliated open books recovers the Heegaard Floer contact invariant for closed contact manifolds. We also consider a natural map associated to forgetting the foliation F\mathcal{F} in favor of the dividing set, and show that it maps the bordered sutured invariant to the contact invariant of a sutured manifold defined by Honda-Kazez-Mati\'{c}.

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@article{arxiv.2011.08672,
  title  = {Bordered Floer homology and contact structures},
  author = {Akram Alishahi and Viktória Földvári and Kristen Hendricks and Joan Licata and Ina Petkova and Vera Vértesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08672},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

47 pages, 32 figures. Minor revisions. To appear in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma

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