An elementary approach to some aspects of Heegaard Floer homology
Heegaard Floer homology is a new invariant for 3-manifolds and links introduced by Ozsvath and Szabo. It counts pseudo-holomorphic Whitney disks in the symmetric product of the Heegaard surface of the underlying manifold. This thesis is about showing the existence of a natural complex structure on t...
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Format: | Dissertation |
Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17446 |