Talk page

Title:
A Bordered Monopole Floer Theory

Speaker:
John Baldwin

Abstract:
"I'll discuss work-in-progress toward constructing monopole Floer theoretic invariants of bordered 3-manifolds. Roughly, our construction associates an A-infinity algebra to a surface, an A-infinity module to a bordered 3-manifold, and a map of A-infinity modules to a 4-dimensional cobordism of bordered 3-manifolds. I'll focus on the topological and algebraic aspects of our work and, in particular, will indicate how we prove a pairing theorem relating the invariants of two bordered 3-manifolds with that of the manifold obtained by gluing the former together along homeomorphic components of their boundaries. This is joint work with Jon Bloom.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=165

Workshop:
Simons- Program: Low Dimensional Topology (Fall 2012)