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Geometry & Topology
The contact invariant in sutured Floer homology
Ko HondaUSC
March 6, 2008 - 11:30am to March 5, 2008 - 7:00pm
431 DL
We describe an invariant of a contact 3-manifold with convex
boundary as an element of Juh’asz’s sutured Floer homology. Our
invariant generalizes the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology
in the closed case, due to Ozsv’ath and Szab’o.