Lagrangian torus invariants using ECH=SWF

DOI10.4310/JSG.2021.V19.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ2063699zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 11 January 2022

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04553

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Invariants of 4-manifolds (including Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) (57K41) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Floer homology (57R58) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We construct distinguished elements in the embedded contact homology (and monopole Floer homology) of a 3-torus, associated with Lagrangian tori in symplectic 4-manifolds and their isotopy classes. They turn out not to be new invariants, instead they repackage the Gromov (and Seiberg-Witten) invariants of various torus surgeries. We then recover a result of Morgan-Mrowka-Szab'o on product formulas for the Seiberg-Witten invariants along 3-tori.

Review text

Embedded contact homology (ECH) is a kind of Floer homology for contact three-manifolds. Taubes has shown that ECH is isomorphic to a version of Seiberg-Witten Floer homology, cf. [\textit{C. H. Taubes}, Geom. Topol. 14, No. 5, 2497--2581 (2010; Zbl 1275.57037)]. The author of the paper under review describes distinguished elements in ECH of a 3-torus, associated with Lagrangian tori in symplectic 4-manifolds and their isotopy classes. These invariants are not new, ``they repackage the Gromov (and Seiberg-Witten) invariants of various torus surgeries. Finally, the autor ``recovers a result of Morgan-Mrowka-Szabo on product formulas for the Seiberg-Witten invariants along 3-tori [\textit{J. W. Morgan} et al., Math. Res. Lett. 4, No. 6, 915--929 (1997; Zbl 0892.57021)].

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