Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo
Published 2006-02-10Version 1
We review the construction of Heegaard Floer homology for closed three-manifolds and also for knots and links in the three-sphere. We also discuss three applications of this invariant to knot theory: studying the Thurston norm of a link complement, the slice genus of a knot, and the unknotting number of a knot. We emphasize the application to the Thurston norm, and illustrate the theory in the case of the Conway link.
Comments: To appear in the Proceedings for ICM-2006 Madrid
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