Relative grading in Heegaard Floer homology

ID: relative-grading-in-heegaard-floer-homology

For generators in the same Spin-c structure and a Whitney disk class joining them,
The ambiguity is the divisibility of on ; a torsion determinant class gives an integer relative grading. Adding a sphere class changes by two and by one, so it leaves the difference unchanged. For a domain , the index can be calculated as , where is Euler measure and each is the sum of averages of the four adjacent region multiplicities at the selected intersections.

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