Surgery, Polygons and SU(N)-Floer Homology

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12137MaRDI QIDQ6295802arXivFDO

Authors Lucas Culler, A. Daemi, Yi Xie

Publication date 28 December 2017

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/TOPO.12137

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18) Floer homology (57R58)

arXiv classification

math.DGmath.GT

Abstract: Surgery exact triangles in various 3-manifold Floer homology theories provide an important tool in studying and computing the relevant Floer homology groups. These exact triangles relate the invariants of 3-manifolds, obtained by three different Dehn surgeries on a fixed knot. In this paper, the behavior of $SU(N)$-instanton Floer homology with respect to Dehn surgery is studied. In particular, it is shown that there are surgery exact tetragons and pentagons, respectively, for $SU(3)$- and $SU(4)$-instanton Floer homologies. It is also conjectured that $SU(N)$-instanton Floer homology in general admits a surgery exact $(N+1)$-gon. An essential step in the proof is the construction of a family of asymptotically cylindrical metrics on ALE spaces of type $A_n$. This family is parametrized by the $(n-2)$-dimensional associahedron and consists of anti-self-dual metrics with positive scalar curvature. The metrics in the family also admit a torus symmetry.

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