Geometric structure and Floer theory of three-dimensional manifolds

三维流形的几何结构与Floer理论

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-05440
• 负责人: Watson, Liam
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=710832
• 关键词: Geometric; structure; Floer; theory; three

Low-dimensional topology continues to draw on groundbreaking ideas of Floer. This has generated a vibrant sub-discipline; new structure is being uncovered and difficult problems are being solved. This activity comes alongside landmark achievements in geometric topology - e.g. Agol and Wise's resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture - highlighting successes of Thurston's program. My proposal is positioned at the nexus of these areas of activity, with a view to bridging between Thurston-style geometric topology and Floer-theoretic invariants in low-dimensions. This research will draw on the fundamental group, working to uncover the interplay between left-orderable groups, taut foliations, and Floer homology. Interplay between these structures has generated a wealth of new research; the conjectured connection is now established for graph manifolds (see my work with Hanselman, Rasmussen and Rasmussen). This uses novel algebraic tools from bordered Floer homology, a variant of Heegaard Floer homology adapted to manifolds with boundary. I aim to bring these tools to bear on the role of hyperbolic structures in Floer theory. Understanding the geometric underpinnings of Floer theory builds on questions of Ozsvth-Szab pertaining to relationships with the fundamental group. My work with Boyer and Gordon formulates a conjectural connection that has been a catalyst for new research activity on this problem. Reiterating this, the importance of making connections between geometric 3-manifold topology and Floer homology was singled out by Agol in his Veblen citation. My work with Hanselman and Rasmussen recasts bordered invariants for manifolds with torus boundary in terms of immersed curves in the punctured torus. While this requires a mild hypothesis on the 3-manifold in question, our work aligns with that of Haiden-Katzarkov-Kontsevitch on Fukaya categories of surfaces. Our continued research aims to interpret this progress in homological mirror symmetry in our setting in order to establish new results in low-dimensions. This work points to interesting structure both for orderable groups and in foliation theory. In a related vein, it is conjectured that there do not exist hyperbolic integer homology sphere L-spaces (manifolds with simplest possible Heegaard Floer homology). This is a key instance where an understanding of the relationship between hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Floer theory is required. I propose to approach this problem with mapping class groups of surfaces as a mediating object: bimodules in bordered Floer homology provide a faithful categorical representation of the mapping class group, while geometric limits in hyperbolic geometry suggest a search for stable properties of 3-manifolds associated with iterated mapping classes. This suggests new algebraic structures, and a program towards understanding the paucity of hyperbolic L-space integer homology spheres.

低维拓扑继续借鉴弗洛尔的开创性思想。这产生了一个充满活力的分支学科；新格局正在显现，难题正在解决。这一活动伴随着几何拓扑学的里程碑式成就——例如Agol和Wise对虚拟哈肯猜想的解决——突出了Thurston计划的成功。我的建议定位于这些活动领域的联系，以期在瑟斯顿风格的几何拓扑和低维的花理论不变量之间架起桥梁。