Use ordinary integer surgery coefficients, so the positive trace has intersection form . Let be the capped Seifert surface. Label the Spin-c structures by
On the trace , let and label its structures by . Restriction identifies with . In these compatible labels the Integer-surgery exact triangle in Heegaard Floer homology is
Here boldface denotes the U-adic completion of Heegaard Floer homology. Only finitely many zero-surgery structures contribute, by the genus bound on a capped Seifert surface, so the middle direct sum causes no difficulty. The infinite sums of trace maps do require completion. The printed minus notation should be understood in this completed sense; with the polynomial version, a sum over every extension need not even have values in . The plus version has the same ordering and needs no completion.
The two ordinary surgery traces give and . For , , and its Spin-c structures have determinant evaluations on the capped Seifert surface. Their restrictions are the unique structure on and on . Thus the component of in the th summand is for . For the orientation-reversed and turned-around trace , and . Its structures still have characteristic evaluations , restrict to on and to the unique structure on , and
Characteristic parity explains the allowed evaluations; changing a structure by the generator of changes its evaluation by two, and the boundary restriction reduces the label modulo .
For , has an auxiliary lens-space input. More precisely, take the three-boundary surgery cobordism, or equivalently a two-ended cobordism , where is positive -surgery on the unknot. Its incoming lens-space factor is fixed to the distinguished structure and its canonical top Floer generator . Then
This describes the boundary restrictions exactly, including the boundary that must not be suppressed. A concrete Kirby diagram for starts with the split incoming surgeries of coefficients and , then attaches a zero-framed circle linking each incoming component once. Its full linking matrix is . Quotienting cohomology by the two incoming surgery columns gives . Accordingly its Spin-c structures may be labeled with incoming restrictions and outgoing restriction . In particular, fixing gives exactly one extension for each , and its outgoing class is . Thus is a Heegaard Floer cobordism map with the fixed auxiliary generator, rather than an unqualified map of a trace from to . When , and all three arrows become the familiar sums of ordinary two-ended Heegaard Floer cobordism maps.