The combinatorial hat differential of a Heegaard diagram #
The hat chain group \widehat{CF} of a pointed Heegaard diagram is the π½β-vector space on its
generators. Its differential sends a generator x to the sum over generators y of the number,
modulo two, of holomorphic disks from x to y of Maslov index one avoiding the basepoints. The
domain of such a disk is a nonnegative domain from x to y with multiplicity zero at every
basepoint and Maslov index one. Sarkar and Wang show that in a genuine nice Heegaard diagram,
one on a surface in which every region containing no basepoint is an embedded disk with two or
four corners, every such domain is an empty embedded bigon or an empty embedded rectangle, and
each of those is the domain of exactly one holomorphic disk modulo translation. So in a genuine
nice diagram the differential counts these domains themselves, which is the combinatorial chain
complex of SarkarβWang and OzsvΓ‘thβStipsiczβSzabΓ³.
This file defines that count for the abstract region incidence data
TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem with region Euler characteristics Ο. The counted domains from
x to y form the set H.hatDomains Ο x y. It is finite when the diagram is weakly admissible,
or merely weakly admissible at y, and the matrix coefficient H.hatCoefficient Ο x y is its
cardinality modulo two. The linear map H.hatDifferential Ο on H.Generator ββ ZMod 2 has
these coefficients. The abstract condition TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.IsNice only records
that every region containing no basepoint has Euler characteristic one and two or four corners;
it does not say that H and Ο come from regions of an actual surface. The agreement of this
count with the holomorphic differential therefore applies only to incidence data realized by a
genuine nice Heegaard diagram with these region Euler characteristics, and neither that
realization nor the agreement is formalized here. Otherwise the count of domains need not be the
count of holomorphic disks. In a diagram that is not weakly admissible at y the set can be
infinite, in which case the coefficient is 0 by the convention of Set.ncard; the results below
carry the combinatorial hypotheses under which the count is finite and has the properties listed
next. That the differential squares to zero on nice diagrams is not proved here.
The basic properties of the count are the following. In a weakly admissible diagram nothing is
counted from a generator to itself, since a nonnegative periodic domain vanishes. Without nonzero
periodic domains at most one domain is counted between two generators, so each coefficient is 1
exactly when a counted domain exists. In a nice weakly admissible diagram a counted domain
changes the points of x on exactly one or two Ξ±-curves, as a bigon or a rectangle does. In a
singly pointed diagram the differential lowers the relative grading by one, modulo the Maslov
indices of the periodic domains, and on the nose when those vanish.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatDomains: the nonnegative domains of Maslov index one fromxtoyavoiding the basepoints.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatCoefficient: their number modulo two.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatDifferential: theZMod 2-linear map on the free module on generators with these matrix coefficients.
Main results #
TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.WeaklyAdmissibleAt.finite_hatDomainsandTauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.WeaklyAdmissible.finite_hatDomains: in a diagram weakly admissible at the terminal generator, in particular in a weakly admissible diagram, only finitely many domains are counted.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.WeaklyAdmissible.hatCoefficient_self: in a weakly admissible diagram the differential has no diagonal terms.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatCoefficient_eq_one_iff_of_periodicDomains_eq_bot: without nonzero periodic domains, a coefficient is1exactly when some domain is counted.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatDifferential_single_apply: the matrix coefficients of the differential.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatDifferential_eq_zero_iff: the differential vanishes exactly when all of its coefficients do.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.IsNice.hammingDist_eq_one_or_eq_two_of_hatCoefficient_ne_zero: in a nice weakly admissible diagram the differential only joins generators differing on one or twoΞ±-curves.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.relativeGrading_eq_one_of_hatCoefficient_ne_zero: the differential lowers the relative Maslov grading by one.TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.coe_relativeGrading_eq_one_of_hatCoefficient_ne_zero: without any hypothesis on the periodic domains, it lowers the relative Maslov grading by one modulo the periodic Maslov indices.
References #
- P. OzsvΓ‘th and Z. SzabΓ³, Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds, Ann. of Math. 159 (2004), arXiv:math/0101206, Β§4.1 (the hat chain complex).
- S. Sarkar and J. Wang, An algorithm for computing some Heegaard Floer homologies, Ann. of Math. 171 (2010), arXiv:math/0607777, Β§3 (in a genuine nice diagram the differential counts the positive index-one domains avoiding the basepoints, each of which is an empty embedded bigon or rectangle).
- P. OzsvΓ‘th, A. Stipsicz and Z. SzabΓ³, Combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology and nice Heegaard diagrams, Adv. Math. 231 (2012), arXiv:0912.0830 (the combinatorial chain complex of a nice diagram with several basepoints).
The domains counted by the hat differential from the generator x to the generator y:
the nonnegative domains from x to y with multiplicity zero at every basepoint and Maslov
index one, for the region Euler characteristics Ο.
Instances For
In a diagram weakly admissible at y only finitely many domains are counted by the hat
differential from any generator to y.
In a weakly admissible diagram only finitely many domains are counted by the hat differential between two generators.
In a weakly admissible diagram no domain is counted by the hat differential from a generator to itself: such a domain is a nonnegative periodic domain, hence zero, and the zero domain has Maslov index zero.
In a diagram without nonzero periodic domains at most one domain is counted by the hat differential between two generators: two of them differ by a periodic domain.
The coefficient of the generator y in the hat differential of the generator x: the
number, modulo two, of nonnegative domains of Maslov index one from x to y avoiding the
basepoints. This is meaningful when the set H.hatDomains Ο x y of these domains is finite, for
instance in a weakly admissible diagram (WeaklyAdmissible.finite_hatDomains); for an infinite
set the coefficient is 0.
Instances For
The hat differential has coefficient zero from x to y when no domain from x to y is
counted.
A nonzero coefficient of the hat differential from x to y comes from a counted domain
from x to y.
In a weakly admissible diagram the hat differential has no diagonal terms.
In a diagram without nonzero periodic domains, the hat differential has coefficient one from
x to y exactly when some domain from x to y is counted.
In a nice weakly admissible diagram, the hat differential only joins generators whose points
differ on exactly one Ξ±-curve, as across a bigon, or on exactly two, as across a rectangle.
In a singly pointed diagram of a closed surface of genus n whose periodic domains have
Maslov index zero at x, the hat differential lowers the relative Maslov grading by one: a
nonzero coefficient from x to y forces gr(x, y) = 1.
In a singly pointed diagram of a closed surface of genus n, the hat differential lowers
the relative Maslov grading by one modulo the periodic Maslov indices at x: a nonzero
coefficient from x to y forces gr(x, y) = 1 there.
The hat differential of a Heegaard diagram with region Euler characteristics Ο: the
ZMod 2-linear endomorphism of the free module on generators whose coefficient from x to y
is the number, modulo two, of nonnegative domains of Maslov index one from x to y avoiding
the basepoints (TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatCoefficient).
Instances For
The matrix coefficients of the hat differential are the counts
TauCeti.HeegaardRegionSystem.hatCoefficient.
The coefficient of y in the hat differential of a chain c.
The hat differential vanishes exactly when all of its coefficients vanish.