An unoriented skein relation via bordered–sutured Floer homology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
We show that the bordered–sutured Floer invariant of the com-plement of a tangle in an arbitrary 3-manifold Y, with minimal conditions on the bordered–sutured structure, satisfies an unori-ented skein exact triangle. This generalizes a theorem by Manolescu [Man07] for links in S3. We give a theoretical proof of this result by adapting holomorphic polygon counts to the bordered–sutured set-ting, and also give a combinatorial description of all maps involved and explicitly compute them. We then show that, for Y = S3, our exact triangle coincides with Manolescu’s. Finally, we provide a graded version of our result, explaining in detail the grading reduction process involved.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Journal of Symplectic Geometry
First Page
1495
Last Page
1561
Recommended Citation
Vela-Vick, D., & Michael Wong, C. (2021). An unoriented skein relation via bordered–sutured Floer homology. Journal of Symplectic Geometry, 19 (6), 1495-1561. https://doi.org/10.4310/JSG.2021.v19.n6.a4