Heegaard diagrams and Floer homology

• Autores: Peter S. Ozsváth, Zoltán I. Szabó
• Localización: Proceedings oh the International Congress of Mathematicians: Madrid, August 22-30,2006 : invited lectures / coord. por Marta Sanz Solé , Javier Soria de Diego , Juan Luis Varona Malumbres , Joan Verdera , Vol. 2, 2006, ISBN 978-3-03719-022-7, págs. 1083-1100
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We review the construction of Heegaard�Floer homology for closed three-manifolds and also for knots and links in the three-sphere. We also discuss three applications of this invariant to knot theory: studying the Thurston norm of a link complement, the slice genus of a knot, and the unknotting number of a knot. We emphasize the application to the Thurston norm, and illustrate the theory in the case of the Conway link.