| dc.contributor.advisor | Denis Auroux. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Brown, Tova Helen Fell | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-19T18:51:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-12-19T18:51:20Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67786 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2011. | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 55). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Heegaard Floer hat invariant is defined on closed 3-manifolds, with a related invariant for 4-dimensional cobordisms, forming a 3+1 topological quantum field theory. Bordered Heegaard Floer homology generalizes this invariant to parametrized Riemann surfaces and to cobordisms between them, yielding a 2+1 TQFT. We discuss an approach to synthesizing these two theories to form a 2+1+1 TQFT, by defining Heegaard Floer invariants for Lefschetz fibrations with corners. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Tova Helen Fell Brown. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 55 p. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mathematics. | en_US |
| dc.title | Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology and four-manifolds with corners | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 767739514 | en_US |
