A sheaf-theoretic model for SL (2, C) Floer homology

DOI10.4171/JEMS/994zbMATH Open1455.57018arXiv1708.00289OpenAlexW3048505897MaRDI QIDQ2216744FDOQ2216744

Authors: Mohammed Abouzaid, Ciprian Manolescu 

Publication date: 17 December 2020

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a Heegaard splitting of a three-manifold Y, we consider the SL(2,C) character variety of the Heegaard surface, and two complex Lagrangians associated to the handlebodies. We focus on the smooth open subset corresponding to irreducible representations. On that subset, the intersection of the Lagrangians is an oriented d-critical locus in the sense of Joyce. Bussi associates to such an intersection a perverse sheaf of vanishing cycles. We prove that in our setting, the perverse sheaf is an invariant of Y, i.e., it is independent of the Heegaard splitting. The hypercohomology of this sheaf can be viewed as a model for (the dual of) SL(2,C) instanton Floer homology. We also present a framed version of this construction, which takes into account reducible representations. We give explicit computations for lens spaces and Brieskorn spheres, and discuss the connection to the Kapustin-Witten equations and Khovanov homology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00289

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologycharacter varietyKhovanov homologyHeegaard splittingthree-manifoldd-critical locus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18)

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