Lectures on Heegaard Floer Homology
Lectures on Heegaard Floer Homology
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Heegaard Floer 同调性讲座
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2005
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P. Ozsváth
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P. Ozsváth
These are notes for the second lecture course on Heegaard Floer homology in the Clay Mathematics Institute Budapest Summer School in June 2004, taught by the first author. Although some of the topics covered in that course did not make it into these notes (specifically, the discussion of “knot Floer homology” which instead is described in the lecture notes for the first course, cf. [44]), the central aim has remained largely the same: we have attempted to give a fairly direct path towards some topological applications of the surgery long exact sequence in Heegaard Floer homology. Specifically, the goal was to sketch with the minimum amount of machinery necessary a proof of the Dehn surgery characterization of the unknot, first established in a collaboration with Peter Kronheimer, Tomasz Mrowka, and Zoltán Szabó. (This problem was first solved in [29] using SeibergWitten gauge theory, rather than Heegaard Floer homology; the approach outlined here can be found in [39].) In Lecture 1, the surgery exact triangle is stated, and some of its immediate applications are given. In Lecture 2, it is proved. Lecture 3 concerns the maps induced by smooth cobordisms between three-manifolds. This is the lecture containing the fewest technical details – though most of those can be found in [34]. In Lecture 4, we show how the exact triangle, together with properties of the maps appearing in it, lead to a proof of the Dehn surgery classification of the unknot. An attempt has been made to keep the discussion as simple as possible. For example, in these notes we avoid the use of “twisted coefficients”. This comes at a price: as a result, we do not develop the necessary machinery required to handle knots with genus one. It is hoped that the reader’s interest will be sufficiently piqued to study the original papers to fill in this gap. There are also a number of exercises scattered throughout the text, in topics ranging from homological algebra and elementary conformal mapping to low-dimensional topology. The reader is strongly encouraged to think through these exercises; some of the proofs in the text rely on them. At the conclusion of each lecture, there is a discussion on further reading on the material.