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Why is Heegaard Floer Homology defined in terms of $\operatorname{Sym}^g\Sigma_g$ Sym$^g\Sigma_g$ instead of $\operatorname{Pic}^g\Sigma_g$?Pic$^g\Sigma_g$? |
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Why is Heegaard Floer Homology defined in terms of $\operatorname{Sym}^g\Sigma_g$ instead of $\operatorname{Pic}^g\Sigma_g$?Recall the definition of Heegaard Floer homology: $\Sigma_g$ is a closed surface, and Now if we think of $\Sigma_g$ as a complex curve, then there is a birational map $\phi:\operatorname{Sym}^g\Sigma_g\to\operatorname{Pic}^g\Sigma_g$.
There is at least one concrete reason (and one philosophical reason) why one might try this definition instead of the original:
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