On a Heegaard Floer theory for tangles

DOI10.17863/CAM.8706MaRDI QIDQ6278974zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Claudius Zibrowius

Publication date 24 October 2016

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.8706

Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to define a "local" version of Ozsv'{a}th and Szab'{o}'s Heegaard Floer homology $operatornamewidehatHFL$ for links in the 3-dimensional sphere, i.e. a Heegaard Floer homology $operatornamewidehatHFT$ for tangles in the closed 3-ball. After studying basic properties of $operatornamewidehatHFT$ and its decategorified tangle invariant $abl{a}_T^s$, we prove a glueing theorem in terms of Zarev's bordered sutured Floer homology, which endows $operatornamewidehatHFT$ with an additional glueing structure. For 4-ended tangles, we repackage this glueing structure into certain curved complexes $operatorname{CFT}^{p}artial$, which we call peculiar modules. This allows us to easily recover oriented and unoriented skein relations for $operatornamewidehatHFL$. Our peculiar modules enjoy some symmetry properties, which support a conjecture about $delta$-graded mutation invariance of $operatornamewidehatHFL$. In fact, we show that any two links related by mutation about a $(2,-3)$-pretzel tangle have the same $delta$-graded link Floer homology. In the last part of this thesis, we explore the relationship between peculiar modules and twisted complexes in the fully wrapped Fukaya category of the 4-punctured sphere. This thesis is accompanied by two Mathematica packages. The first is a tool for computing the generators of $operatornamewidehatHFT$ and its decategorified tangle invariant $abl{a}_T^s$. The second allows us to compute Zarev's bordered sutured Floer invariants of any bordered sutured manifold using nice diagrams.

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