Integer graded instanton homology groups for homology three spheres (Q1208253)

The authors define integer lifts of the \(\bmod 8\) graded Floer homology groups. More precisely, to each homology 3-sphere they associate a discrete subset of the real numbers and fore each number not in this set they define an abelian group with a natural \(Z\)-grading. These groups form the \(E^ 1\)-term of a spectral sequence converging to the Floer homology groups. In the last section the Poincaré-Laurent polynomial of these new instanton homology groups is computed for some Brieskorn homology 3- spheres. It turns out that they are not 4-periodic as has been conjectured for the Floer groups.