A combinatorial description of the Heegaard Floer contact invariant

DOI10.2140/AGT.2007.7.1201MaRDI QIDQ2464787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olga Plamenevskaya

Publication date 17 December 2007

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612322

zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresHeegaard Floer homologyopen book decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Floer homology (57R58)

Abstract: In this short note, we observe that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant is combinatorial by applying the algorithm of Sarkar--Wang to the description of the contact invariant due to Honda--Kazez--Matic. We include an example of this combinatorial calculation.

Review text

A recent development in the theory of Heegaard Floer homology is to give a purely combinatorial description of it. Heegaard Floer homology \(\hat{HF}(Y)\) of a three manifold \(Y\) admits a combinatorial description by choosing particular Heegaard diagrams where almost all the domains of holomorphic disks are squares or bigons admitting unique holomorphic representatives. For a contact three manifold \((Y, \xi)\), Ozsváth and Szabó introduced an invariant \(c(\xi)\) in \( \hat{HF}(-Y)\), whose non-vanishing implies that \(\xi\) is tight. It is defined via an open book decomposition of \((Y,\xi)\), and there is an alternative geometric description of \(c(\xi)\) by Honda-Kazez-Matić. This paper computes \(c(\xi)\) in a combinatorial fashion, by using the latter description and applying the Saker-Wang algorithm. Let \((S,h)\) be an open book decomposition for the contact manifold \((Y, \xi)\). The main theorem states that there exists an open book \((S,h')\) for \( (Y,\xi)\) such that a certain Heegaard diagram described concretely has only bigon and square regions (except for the polygonal region \(D_0 \subset S_{1/2}\)). The monodromy \(h'\) differes from the given \(h\) by an isotopy.

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