Cylindrical contact homology computed for links of simple singularities.
problem Computing cylindrical contact homology for links of simple singularities.
method Perturbing degenerate contact form on S3/G with an invariant Morse function, achieving nondegeneracy up to an action threshold. Recovers cylindrical contact homology via direct limit of action filtered homology groups. result Ranks of cylindrical contact homology groups are given in terms of ∣extConj(G)∣, demonstrating a form of the McKay correspondence. We use contact handle decompositions and a stabilization process to compute the cylindrical contact homology of a subcritical Stein-fillable contact manifold with vanishing first Chern class, and show that it is completely determined by the homology of a subcritical Stein-filling of the contact manifold.
Cylindrical contact homology is a comparatively simple incarnation of symplectic field theory whose existence and invariance under suitable hypotheses was recently established by Hutchings and Nelson. We study this invariant for a general Brieskorn 3-manifold Σ(a1,…,an), and give a complete description of the…
In this paper we show that any good toric contact manifold has well defined cylindrical contact homology and describe how it can be combinatorially computed from the associated moment cone. As an application we compute the cylindrical contact homology of a particularly nice family of examples that appear in the work of…
Cylindrical contact homology linked to Ehrhart polynomials and Chen-Ruan cohomology.
problem Contact invariants of Q-Gorenstein toric contact manifolds.
method Relationships between cylindrical contact homology and Ehrhart polynomials, Chen-Ruan cohomology.
result Cylindrical contact homology invariants linked to Ehrhart polynomials and Chen-Ruan cohomology.
We present three equivalent definitions of S1-equivariant symplectic homology. We show that, using rational coefficients, the positive part of S1-equivariant symplectic homology is isomorphic to linearized contact homology, when the latter is defined. We present several computations and applications, and introduc…
We give a simple model in the complex plane of the 0-surgery along a fibered knot of a closed 3-manifold M to yield a mapping torus M'. This model allows explicit relations between pseudoholomorphic curves in the symplectizations of M and M'. As an application we use it to compute the cylindrical contact homology of op…
In hyperbolic L-spaces, we find multiple pseudo-Anosov flows with unique properties.
problem Finding multiple pseudo-Anosov flows in hyperbolic L-spaces.
method Used cylindrical contact homology and reconstruction of pseudo-Anosov flows from their closed orbits.
result Proved the existence of n pseudo-Anosov flows in hyperbolic L-spaces, each with unique properties. This paper is concerned with the rational symplectic field theory in the Floer case. For this observe that in the general geometric setup for symplectic field theory the contact manifolds can be replaced by mapping tori of symplectic manifolds with symplectomorphisms. While the cylindrical contact homology is given by …
The contact invariant is an element in the monopole Floer homology groups of an oriented closed three manifold canonically associated to a given contact structure. A non-vanishing contact invariant implies that the original contact structure is tight, so understanding its behavior under symplectic cobordisms is of inte…
We survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emphasis on sutured manifolds and invariants of sutured contact manifolds. This paper contains two original results: the fact that a closed orientable irreducible 3-manifold M with nonzero second homol-ogy carries a hyperti…
Study on parabolic points and cylindrical surfaces in Euclidean 3-space.
problem Characterizing parabolic points and their geometric properties.
method Introducing contact cylindrical surfaces and analyzing their properties.
result Characterization of A-singularity through projections. Develops gluing theory for contact instantons and pseudoholomorphic curves.
problem Constructing contact instanton Floer cohomology and Fukaya-type category.
method Gluing theory of contact instantons and pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectization context.
result Construction of Legendrian contact instanton homology and moduli spaces of holomorphic buildings.
Let Σ be a surface with a symplectic form, let φ be a symplectomorphism of Σ, and let Y be the mapping torus of φ. We show that the dimensions of moduli spaces of embedded pseudoholomorphic curves in R×Y, with cylindrical ends asymptotic to periodic orbits of φ or multiple covers thereof, are bound…
Floer homology connects to quiver Hecke algebras in Coulomb branches.
problem Understanding the representation theory of quiver Hecke algebras.
method Using Lagrangian Floer homology in multiplicative Coulomb branches.
result Cylindrical KLRW algebras are realized by Floer homology.
Branched covers of orbit cylinders are the basic examples of holomorphic curves studied in symplectic field theory. Since all curves with Fredholm index one can never be regular for any choice of cylindrical almost complex structure, we generalize the obstruction bundle technique of Taubes for determining multiple cove…
In various situations in Floer theory, one extracts homological invariants from "Morse-Bott" data in which the "critical set" is a union of manifolds, and the moduli spaces of "flow lines" have evaluation maps taking values in the critical set. This requires a mix of analytic arguments (establishing properties of the m…
We reformulate Heegaard Floer homology in terms of holomorphic curves in the cylindrical manifold Sigma x [0,1] x R, where Sigma is the Heegaard surface, instead of Sym^g(Sigma). We then show that the entire invariance proof can be carried out in our setting. In the process, we derive a new formula for the index of the…
We review the SO(3) instanton gauge theory of Fintushel and Stern and recast it in the context of 4-manifolds with cylindrical ends. Appli- cations to the Z/2-homology cobordism group of Z/2-homology 3-spheres are given.
The paper extends knot contact homology to tangles and proves a gluing formula.
problem Defining and proving invariants for tangles in R3. method Extending knot contact homology to tangles and proving a gluing formula.
result Tangle contact homology detects triviality of tangles.
Contact gluing maps are shown to be equivalent in sutured Floer homology.
problem Equivalence of contact gluing maps in sutured Floer homology.
method Established a conjecture by Zarev, showing the contact gluing map is equivalent to the sutured Floer homology gluing map.
result Contact gluing maps are equivalent in sutured Floer homology.
New contact structures detected by contact homology.
problem Detecting pseudo-Anosov flows in contact structures.
method Introducing pseudo-Anosov contact structures and using contact homology.
result Contact homology detects pseudo-Anosov flows and contact structures properties.
Survey of contact homology for contact manifolds.
problem Understanding contact manifolds through homology.
method Holomorphic curves invariants.
result Useful for students and young mathematicians.
Survey on proof of homology isomorphism between two complex theories.
problem Proof of isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology.
method Survey of proof methods from multiple papers.
result Established isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology.
Knot contact homology is an invariant of knots derived from Legendrian contact homology which has numerous connections to the knot group. We use basic properties of knot groups to prove that knot contact homology detects every torus knot. Further, if the knot contact homology of a knot is isomorphic to that of a cable …
The paper examines conditions for contact surgeries on rational homology 3-spheres.
problem Conditions for contact surgeries on rational homology 3-spheres.
method Analyzes sufficient conditions for contact surgeries using Legendrian knots and links.
result Provides sufficient conditions for surgeries to have vanishing contact invariants or to be overtwisted.
Study examines homology of contact CR-submanifolds in complex Euclidean space.
problem Investigating the homology of contact CR-submanifolds.
method Analyzes stable integral currents and homology groups of contact CR-submanifolds in Cm. result Nonexistence of stable integral currents and vanishing theorems for homology groups.
Simplified construction of contact triad connection for analysis.
problem Analyzing contact instanton equation on contact triads.
method Characterization via almost contact structure and construction using almost contact moving frame.
result Simpler and more canonical construction of contact triad connection.
This note corrects one serious mistake and several smaller mistakes from arXiv:math/0502404. The main results of that paper are unchanged.
We introduce constructions of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with cylindrical Legendrian ends and study their invariants which arise from Symplectic Field Theory. A pair (X,L) consisting of an exact symplectic manifold X and an exact Lagrangian cobordism L⊂X which agrees with cylinders over Legendrian links $…
Given a closed oriented 3-manifold M, we establish an isomorphism between the Heegaard Floer homology group HF^+(-M) and the embedded contact homology group ECH(M). Starting from an open book decomposition (S,h) of M, we construct a chain map Φ^+ from a Heegaard Floer chain complex associated to (S,h) to an embedded co…
Persistent Legendrian contact homology distinguishes knots using height functional.
problem Distinguishing Legendrian knots in R3. method Persistent homology applied to Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA, with height functional.
result Strong Morse inequalities for persistent Legendrian contact homology.
We show that there exists a Legendrian knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant whose contact homology is trivial. We also provide another Legendrian knot which has the same knot type and classical invariants but nonvanishing contact homology.
Study contact invariants using Floer homology to understand knots.
problem Understanding contact invariants of knots through surgeries.
method Used Heegaard Floer based contact invariants, sutured Floer homology, and limit constructions.
result Established relations between contact invariants of knots through surgeries.
We give a proof of, for the case of contact structures defined by global contact 1-forms, a Theorem stated by Eliashberg that for any overtwisted contact structure on a closed 3-manifold, its contact homology is 0. A different proof is also outlined in the appendix by Yakov Eliashberg.
The main result of this paper is that, off of a `fundamental class' in degree 1, the linearized Legendrian contact homology obeys a version of Poincare duality between homology groups in degrees k and -k. Not only does the result itself simplify calculations, but its proof also establishes a framework for analyzing coh…
We show that on any closed contact manifold of dimension greater than 1 a contact structure with vanishing contact homology can be constructed. The basic idea for the construction comes from Giroux. We use a special open book decomposition for spheres. The page is the cotangent bundle of a sphere and the monodromy is g…
We consider a family of tight contact structures on the three-dimensional torus and we compute the relative Contact Homology by using the variational theory of critical points at infinity. We will also show some algebraic equivariant homology reductions.
Introduction to contact invariant in bordered Floer homology.
problem Understanding the contact invariant in bordered Floer homology.
method Construction relies on special foliated open books, with a procedure to obtain such books and a local proof of vanishing for overtwisted structures.
result Explicit bordered computation of the vanishing of the contact invariant for overtwisted structures.
Using contact homology, we reobtain some recent results of Geiges and Gonzalo about the fundamental group of the space of contact structures on some 3-manifolds. We show that our techniques can be used to study higher dimensional contact manifolds and higher order homotopy groups.
By recent results of Baker--Etnyre--Van Horn-Morris, a rational open book decomposition defines a compatible contact structure. We show that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant of such a contact structure can be computed in terms of the knot Floer homology of its (rationally null-homologous) binding. We then use this …
Contact surgeries yield algebraically overtwisted manifolds.
problem Understanding algebraically overtwisted contact manifolds through surgeries.
method Contact (+1)-surgeries on Legendrian spheres in flexibly fillable contact manifolds. result Yielding algebraically overtwisted manifolds when the Legendrian's homology class is not annihilated.
The paper defines contact invariants in bordered Floer homology.
problem Tackles contact invariants in bordered Floer homology.
method Defines contact invariants in bordered sutured Floer homology.
result Contact invariants derived in bordered sutured modules and bimodules.
We describe an invariant of a contact 3-manifold with convex boundary as an element of Juhász's sutured Floer homology. Our invariant generalizes the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology in the closed case, due to Ozsváth and Szabó. This version has some clarifications and new figures.
We give a combinatorial description of the Legendrian contact homology algebra associated to a Legendrian link in S1×S2 or any connected sum #k(S1×S2), viewed as the contact boundary of the Weinstein manifold obtained by attaching 1-handles to the 4-ball. In view of the surgery formula for symplec…
We define the reduced Khovanov homology of an open book (S,h), and we identify a distinguished "contact element" in this group which may be used to establish the tightness or non-fillability of contact structures compatible with (S,h). Our construction generalizes the relationship between the reduced Khovanov homology …
Given a contact structure on a closed, oriented three-manifold Y, we describe an invariant which takes values in the three-manifold's Floer homology $\HFa$. This invariant vanishes for overtwisted contact structures and is non-zero for Stein fillable ones. The construction uses of Giroux's interpretation of contact s…
In this paper, we explore the interplay between contact structures and sutured monopole Floer homology. First, we study the behavior of contact elements, which were defined by Baldwin and Sivek, under the operation of performing Floer excisions, which was introduced to the context of sutured monopole Floer homology by …