Homology cobordism invariants from Floer theory
Speaker:
Ciprian Manolescu, University of California, Los Angeles
Date and Time:
Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 3:15pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
I will survey the different invariants of homology cobordism
coming from Floer theory. These include: Froyshov's h (or delta)
invariant; the corresponding Ozsvath-Szabo correction term d; the invariants alpha, beta and gamma from Pin(2)-equivariant
Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology; the invariants d-lower and d
-upper from Z/4-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology (or involutive Heegaard Floer homology); kappa and kappa-o from Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer K-and KO-theory. I will describe several applications, and end with a few open problems.