The decategorification of bordered Heegaard Floer homology (Q1744580)

Heegaard Floer homology is an approach to studying knots, links, and 3- and 4-manifolds developed by \textit{P. Ozsváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó} [Geom. Topol. 7, 185--224 (2003; Zbl 1130.57302); Ann. Math. (2) 159, No. 3, 1159--1245 (2004; Zbl 1081.57013)]. The ideas of Heegaard Floer homology were recently generalized by \textit{R. Lipshitz} et al. to 3-manifolds with boundary [``Bordered Heegaard Floer homology: invariance and pairing'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:0810.0687}]. Bordered Heegaard Floer homology is an invariant for 3-manifolds which associates to a surface \(F\) an algebra \(\mathcal{A}(\mathcal{Z})\) , and to a 3-manifold \(Y\) with boundary, together with an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism \(\phi:F\rightarrow \partial Y\), a module over \(\mathcal{A}(\mathcal{Z})\) . In this paper the author studies the Grothendieck group of modules over \(\mathcal{A}(\mathcal{Z})\), and she defines an invariant lying in this group for every bordered 3-manifold \((Y,\partial Y,\phi)\). Also an Euler characteristic of bordered Heegaard Floer homology is studied for each of the two types of modules associated to a bordered manifold. As an application of the theoretical results the author shows that the pairing theorem for bordered Floer homology categorifies the classical Alexander polynomial formula for satellites.