Integer-surgery exact triangle in Heegaard Floer homology

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For a knot in an integral homology three-sphere and , fix a Spin-c structure on the -surgery. Write for structures on zero-surgery with , using a capped Seifert surface. In compatible labels the completed-minus triangle is
One can equally use the plus theory without completing. The first map is the congruence-restricted zero-surgery trace map; the last is the sum of reverse, orientation-reversed -surgery trace maps. The middle map uses a Heegaard triple with an auxiliary lens-space generator. For that lens space is , giving the usual three two-ended cobordism maps. For it is important to retain the auxiliary boundary and its fixed Spin-c structure. The U-adic completion of Heegaard Floer homology makes the sums of maps well-defined.

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