Rank inequalities for the Heegaard Floer homology of branched covers

  • Kristen Hendricks

    Mathematics Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08854, USA
  • Tye Lidman

    Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
  • Robert Lipshitz

    Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Rank inequalities for the Heegaard Floer homology of branched covers cover
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Abstract

We show that if is a nullhomologous link in a 3-manifold and is a double cover of branched along then for each spin-structure on there is an inequality We discuss the relationship with the -space conjecture and give some other topological applications, as well as an analogous result for sutured Floer homology.

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Kristen Hendricks, Tye Lidman, Robert Lipshitz, Rank inequalities for the Heegaard Floer homology of branched covers. Doc. Math. 27 (2022), pp. 581–612

DOI 10.4171/DM/878