surgery polygons and su n floer homology

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09910
• Publication Date: 2020-03-19
• Authors: Yi Xie; Aliakbar Daemi; Lucas Culler
• Keywords: Mathematics - Differential Geometry; Mathematics - Geometric Topology; Differential Geometry (math.DG); FOS: Mathematics; Geometric Topology (math.GT); 57M27, 57R58; 0101 mathematics; 01 natural sciences

105 pages, 12 Figures. Comments are welcome!<br/>Surgery exact triangles in various 3-manifold Floer homology theories provide an important tool in studying and computing the relevant Floer homology groups. These exact triangles relate the invariants of 3-manifolds, obtained by three different Dehn surgeries on a fixed knot. In this paper, the behavior of $SU(N)$-instanton Floer homology with respect to Dehn surgery is studied. In particular, it is shown that there are surgery exact tetragons and pentagons, respectively, for $SU(3)$- and $SU(4)$-instanton Floer homologies. It is also conjectured that $SU(N)$-instanton Floer homology in general admits a surgery exact $(N+1)$-gon. An essential step in the proof is the construction of a family of asymptotically cylindrical metrics on ALE spaces of type $A_n$. This family is parametrized by the $(n-2)$-dimensional associahedron and consists of anti-self-dual metrics with positive scalar curvature. The metrics in the family also admit a torus symmetry.<br/>