Grid diagrams and Heegaard Floer invariants

Ciprian Manolescu, Peter S. Ozsváth, Dylan P. Thurston

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Abstract

We give combinatorial descriptions of the Heegaard Floer homology groups for arbitrary three-manifolds (with coefficients in Z/2Z). The descriptions are based on presenting the three-manifold as an integer surgery on a link in the three-sphere, and then using a grid diagram for the link. We also give combinatorial descriptions of the mod 2 Ozsváth-Szabó mixed invariants of closed four-manifolds, also in terms of grid diagrams.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-78
Number of pages78
JournalAnnals of Mathematics
Volume201
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • 3-manifolds
  • 4-manifolds
  • Floer homology
  • grid homology
  • knots
  • links

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