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Proves a new skein exact triangle for real monopole Floer homology.

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 …

Paper studies spectral invariants and monopole Floer homology for rational homology three-spheres.

To an integral homology 3-sphere $Y$, we assign a well-defined $\Z$-graded (monopole) homology $MH_*(Y, I_{\e}(\T; \e_0))$ whose construction in principle follows from the instanton Floer theory with the dependence of the spectral flow $I_{\e}(\T; \e_0)$, where $\T$ is the unique U(1)-reducible monopole of the Seiberg-…

New spectral sequence connects Khovanov homology to real monopole Floer homology.

Existence of non-trivial monopoles on 3-spheres proven.

Paper generalizes sutured Floer homologies with new algorithms and polytopes.

Develops invariants for webs and foams using Seiberg-Witten theory.

Study Seiberg-Witten theory on manifolds with codimension-3 foliations.

We give a new construction of monopole Floer homology for spin-c rational homology 3-spheres. As applications we define two invariants of certain smooth compact 4-manifolds with b_1=1 and b^+=0.

In this paper we construct gluing maps and cobordism maps for sutured monopole Floer homology.

Given a spin$^c$ rational homology sphere $(Y,\mathfrak{s})$ with $\mathfrak{s}$ self-conjugate and for which the reduced monopole Floer homology $\mathit{HM}_{\bullet}(Y,\mathfrak{s})$ has rank one, we provide obstructions to the intersection forms of its Stein fillings which are not negative definite. The proof of th…

We prove the existence of an exact triangle for the Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology groups of three manifolds related by specific Dehn surgeries on a given knot. Unlike the counterpart in usual monopole Floer homology, only two of the three maps are those induced by the corresponding elementary cobordism. We use this tr…

Monopole Floer homology is used to prove that real projective three-space cannot be obtained from Dehn surgery on a non-trivial knot in the three-sphere. To obtain this result, we use a surgery long exact sequence for monopole Floer homology, together with a non-vanishing theorem, which shows that monopole Floer homolo…

Proves surgery exact triangle for monopole Floer homology over integers.

Third paper in series defines monopole Floer homology and gluing theorem for 3-manifolds.

We compute the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology for the class of plumbed 3-manifolds with at most one "bad" vertex (in the sense of Ozsvath and Szabo). We show that for these manifolds, the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology can be calculated in terms of the Heegaard Floer/monopole Floer lattice compl…

We use monopole Floer homology for sutured manifolds to construct invariants of Legendrian knots in a contact 3-manifold. These invariants assign to a knot K in Y elements of the monopole knot homology KHM(-Y,K), and they strongly resemble the knot Floer homology invariants of Lisca, Ozsváth, Stipsicz, and Szabó. We pr…

Study SO(3) vortices over orbifold Riemann surfaces and monopoles.

In previous work, we introduced a natural $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-structure on the $\mathrm{Pin}(2)$-monopole Floer chain complex of a closed, oriented three-manifold $Y$, and showed that it is non-formal in the simplest case in which $Y$ is the three-sphere $S^3$. In this paper, we provide explicit descriptions of seve…

We study the behavior of $\mathrm{Pin}(2)$-monopole Floer homology under connected sums. After constructing a (partially defined) $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-module structure on the $\mathrm{Pin}(2)$-monopole Floer chain complex of a three manifold (in the spirit of Baldwin and Bloom's monopole category), we identify up to …

We study the conjugation involution in Seiberg-Witten theory in the context of the Ozsváth-Szabó and Bloom's spectral sequence for the branched double cover of a link $L$ in $S^3$. We prove that there exists a spectral sequence of $\mathbb{F}[Q]/Q^2$-modules (where $Q$ has degree $-1$) which converges to $\widetilde{\m…

Defines monopole Floer homology for 3-manifolds with toroidal boundaries.

Real Seiberg-Witten and monopole Floer homologies are equivalent for certain 3-manifolds.

Two Pin(2)-equivariant Floer homologies are shown to be equivalent.

Monopole Floer homology connects 3-manifold invariants to Riemann surface geometry.

We study the monopole Floer homology of a SOLV rational homology sphere Y from the point of view of spectral theory. Applying ideas of Fourier analysis on solvable groups, we show that for suitable SOLV metrics on Y, small regular perturbations of the Seiberg-Witten equations do not admit irreducible solutions; in part…

Monopole invariant studies contact structures on 3-manifolds.

We establish a surgery formula for 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten monopoles under (+1) Dehn surgery on a knot in a homology 3-sphere. (substantial revision)

Formula for Lefschetz number of knot branched covers.

Real Heegaard Floer Homology extends Li's real monopole Floer homology.

These lecture notes are a friendly introduction to monopole Floer homology. We discuss the relevant differential geometry and Morse theory involved in the definition. After developing the relation with the four-dimensional theory, our attention shifts to gradings and correction terms. Finally, we sketch the analogue in…

Study monopole h-invariants from a topological viewpoint.

Given an involution on a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ with quotient the $3$-sphere, we prove a formula for the Lefschetz number of the map induced by this involution in the reduced monopole Floer homology. This formula is motivated by a variant of Witten's conjecture relating the Donaldson and Seiberg--Witten invaria…

New real invariants for 3-manifolds and links.

We define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory (SHM). Our invariant can be viewed as a generalization of Kronheimer and Mrowka's contact invariant for closed contact 3-manifolds and as the monopole Floer analogue of Honda, Kazez, a…

To a link L in the 3-sphere, we associate a spectral sequence whose E^2 page is the reduced Khovanov homology of L and which converges to a version of the monopole Floer homology of the branched double cover. The pages E^k for k > 1 depend only on the mutation equivalence class of L. We define a mod 2 grading on the sp…

We prove that, like the Seiberg-Witten monopole homology, the Heegaard Floer homology for a three-manifold determines its Thurston norm. As a consequence, we show that knot Floer homology detects the genus of a knot. This leads to new proofs of certain results previously obtained using Seiberg-Witten monopole Floer hom…

The paper constructs monopole Floer homology for specific 3-manifolds and surfaces.

In the present work we generalize the construction of monopole Floer homology due to Kronheimer and Mrowka to the case of a gradient flow with Morse-Bott singularities. Focusing then on the special case of a three-manifold equipped with a spin$^c$ structure isomorphic to its conjugate, we define the counterpart in this…

The paper studies hyperbolic three-manifolds and their geometric constraints.

We show that monopole Floer homology (as defined by Kronheimer and Mrowka) is isomorphic to the S^1-equivariant homology of the Seiberg-Witten Floer spectrum constructed by the second author.

The paper develops a new Floer theory for 3-manifolds with involutions.

In this paper we construct possible candidates for the minus versions of monopole and instanton knot Floer homologies. For a null-homologous knot $K\subset Y$ and a base point $p\in K$, we can associate the minus versions, $\underline{\rm KHM}^-(Y,K,p)$ and $\underline{\rm KHI}^-(Y,K,p)$, to the triple $(Y,K,p)$. We pr…

Compactness theorem for 3-manifold Floer theory defined by Fueter sections.

We prove a Smith-type inequality for regular covering spaces in monopole Floer homology. Using the monopole Floer / Heegaard Floer correspondence, we deduce that if a 3-manifold Y admits a p^n-sheeted regular cover that is a Z/pZ-L-space (for p prime), then Y is a Z/pZ-L-space. Further, we obtain constraints on surgeri…

Computes monopole Floer homology for three-manifolds.

We use the contact invariant defined in [2] to construct a new invariant of Legendrian knots in Kronheimer and Mrowka's monopole knot homology theory (KHM), following a prescription of Stipsicz and Vértesi. Our Legendrian invariant improves upon an earlier Legendrian invariant in KHM defined by the second author in sev…