Heegaard Floer invariants in codimension one

2016/10/11 by Levine, Adam Simon, Ruberman, Daniel
#57M27 #57R58 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.03353

Abstract

Using Heegaard Floer homology, we construct a numerical invariant for any smooth, oriented 4-manifold X with the homology of S¹ × S³. Specifically, we show that for any smoothly embedded 3-manifold Y representing a generator of H₃(X), a suitable version of the Heegaard Floer d invariant of Y, defined using twisted coefficients, is a diffeomorphism invariant of X. We show how this invariant can be used to obstruct embeddings of certain types of 3-manifolds, including those obtained as a connected sum of a rational homology 3-sphere and any number of copies of S¹ × S². We also give similar obstructions to embeddings in certain open 4-manifolds, including exotic ℝ⁴s.

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