02.03.2009 (Monday)

Instanton Floer Homology for Sutured Manifolds

String Theory & Geometry Seminar Tom Mrowka (MIT)

at:
13:00 IC
room IMS seminar room
abstract:

In some recent work with Kronheimer we have carried over a version of Juhasz' Heegaard Floer Homology for sutured three manifolds to Instanton Floer Homology. This leads to amongst over things a streamlined proofs of property P for all knots and that symplectic manifolds have non-vanishing Donaldson invariants.