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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravelomanana, Huygens Christian
Other Authors: Gay, David T.
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17446