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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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Heegaard Floer homology and Strip Diagrams
by
Carl Hammarsten
George Washington University

A 3-dimensional closed manifold Y represented by its branched spine has a canonical Heegaard decomposition. We present this decomposition graphically in the form of a Strip Diagram. We show that strip diagrams have nice properties which greatly simplify the calculation of Heegaard Floer homology for certain manifolds. We hope that this construction works for all closed 3-manifolds.

Date received: April 30, 2013

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