Sutured TQFTs and Floer homology
SEMINARS: GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
When: March 1, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address:
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Jake Rasmussen - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The bordered Floer homology of Lipshitz, Ozsvath, and Thurston was interpreted by Auroux as defining an element in the partially wrapped Fukaya category of a symmetric product of the boundary. We naturally expect that this assignment should be functorial; e.g. a cobordism between two manifolds with torus boundary should induce a morphism between the corresponding Lagrangians. I’ll describe a framework for thinking about functoriality in terms of sutured manifolds and describe what it looks like for Heegaard Floer homology.