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Knots in Washington XXXVI
May 3-5, 2013
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Seifert forms, the Alexander module, and bordered Floer homology
by
Tye Lidman
UT Austin
Coauthors: Jennifer Hom, Sam Lewallen, Liam Watson

Knot Floer homology is a useful invariant of knots whose graded Euler characteristic recovers the Alexander polynomial. Some other objects which can recover the Alexander polynomial are the Seifert form and the Alexander module. We will discuss how the bordered Floer homology of the complement of a Seifert surface for a knot in the three-sphere can be seen as a common refinement of all of these invariants. No familiarity with Floer homology will be assumed.

Date received: April 21, 2013


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