| 16:00-16:50 in UCLA - MS 5147 Robert Lipshitz (Columbia) Heegaard Floer Theory for Three-Manifolds with Boundary
Abstract. Heegaard Floer homology is a (3+1)-dimensional topological field theory (conjecturally) coming from Seiberg-Witten theory. We will discuss an extension of Heegaard Floer homology to three-manifolds with boundary, focusing
on the geometric setting and algebraic properties of the extension. This is joint work with P. Ozsvath and D. Thurston.
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