The embedded contact homology of sutured solid tori (Q2431284)

Symplectic field theory (SFT) was introduced by \textit{Y. M. Eliashberg, A. B. Givental} and \textit{H. H. W. Hofer} [in: \textit{Alon, N.} (ed.) et al., Proceedings of a meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, August 25-September 3, 1999. Part II. Basel: Birkhäuser, 560--673 (2000; Zbl 0989.81114)]. A special case of it is the contact homology of a closed and oriented contact manifold, a Floer-type invariant of such a manifold. For a closed and oriented contact \(3\)-manifold, another variant of contact homology and SFT, the embedded contact homology (ECH), was introduced by \textit{M. Hutchings} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 4, No.4, 313-361 (2002; Zbl 1017.58005)]. This is the homology of a chain complex whose differential counts certain embedded holomorphic curves, possible of higher genus, in the symplectization. Later on, \textit{V. Colin} et al. [Geom. Topol. 15, No. 3, 1749--1842 (2011; Zbl 1231.57026)] generalized these to sutured manifolds, that is, defined relative versions of contact homology and embedded contact homology for contact manifolds with convex boundary. In the paper under review the author calculates the relative versions of embedded contact homology, contact homology and cylindrical contact homology of the sutured solid torus \((S^1\times D^2,\Gamma)\), where \(\Gamma\) consists of \(2n\) parallel longitudinal sutures.