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Let $M$ be a closed oriented smooth four-manifold with $b_2^{+}(M)>1$, and letbe its blowup, with exceptional sphere $E$. A Spin-c structure extending one on $M$ with exceptional evaluation $⟨c_1(\tilde{\mathfrak{s}}),E⟩=\pm 1$ has the same Mixed Heegaard Floer invariant, up to the conventional overall sign. In particular, nonvanishing is preserved.

More generally an evaluation $\pm (2\ell +1)$, with $\ell \ge 0$, makes the exceptional-piece Heegaard Floer cobordism maps on the minus, infinity and plus versions act by multiplication by $U^{\ell (\ell +1)/2}$. Putting the blowup on one side of an admissible cut and using the cobordism composition law supplies the corresponding mixed-invariant formula. This states the factor at the map level, where the placement of $U$ is unambiguous. For $\ell =0$ that factor is one.^[ref]

Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó developed Heegaard Floer homology, constructing invariants of three-manifolds from holomorphic-disk counts associated with Heegaard splittings. Their Berkeley lecture record explicitly identifies the joint discovery.^[ref]

Their four-manifold work uses pseudoholomorphic curves on triangular domains to define maps associated with cobordisms and assemble a smooth four-manifold invariant. The construction connects surface diagrams with information about smooth structures in four dimensions.^[ref]

Zoltán Szabó co-developed Heegaard Floer homology with Peter Ozsváth. The theory obtains invariants of a three-manifold by turning a Heegaard splitting into a Floer-theoretic chain complex.^[ref]

Their Holomorphic triangles and invariants for smooth four-manifolds by Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó extends the framework through Heegaard Floer cobordism maps. Compatibility under gluing lets data from pieces combine into an invariant of a closed smooth four-manifold, while blowup formulas describe its behavior under a controlled geometric modification.^[ref]