Skip to main content
edited tags
Link
John Pardon
  • 18.7k
  • 3
  • 55
  • 131
Source Link

Is there a version of Seiberg-Witten-Floer or Heegard-Floer homology for 3-manifolds with boundary?

Recently, the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology created by Kronheimer and Mrowka has important applications in Taubes' proofs of Weinstein conjecture and Arnold Chord Conjecture. Also, Cagatay Kutluhan, Yi-Jen Lee, and Clifford Taubes have a series of papers on the arxiv proving the equivalence of Heegard-Floer and Seiberg-Witten-Floer homologies. However, these are only defined for closed 3-manifolds.

My question is if there exists any version of HF or SWFH defined for 3-manifolds with boundary?