Locally equivalent Floer complexes and unoriented link cobordisms

Abstract: We show that the local equivalence class of the collapsed link Floer complex

c C F L^{i} n f t y (L)

, together with many

U p s i l o n

-type invariants extracted from this group, is a concordance invariant of links. In particular, we define a version of the invariants

U p s i l o n_{L} (t)

and

u^{+} (L)

when

L

is a link and we prove that they give a lower bound for the slice genus

g_{4} (L)

. Furthermore, in the last section of the paper we study the homology group

H F L^{'} (L)

and its behaviour under unoriented cobordisms. We obtain that a normalized version of the

u p s i l o n

-set, introduced by Ozsv'ath, Stipsicz and Szab'o, produces a lower bound for the 4-dimensional smooth crosscap number

g a m m a_{4} (L)

.

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