Heegaard Floer homology

ID: heegaard-floer-homology

Heegaard Floer homology assigns groups to a closed oriented three-manifold with a Spin-c structure. A pointed Heegaard diagram of genus gives product Lagrangian tori ; the chain complex is generated by their intersection points and its differential counts Whitney disk classes represented by holomorphic disks. The minus, infinity, plus and hat versions use different powers or quotients of the variable . The Heegaard Floer cobordism maps and the Mixed Heegaard Floer invariant relate these groups to smooth four-dimensional topology.

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