Contact structures, sutured Floer homology and TQFT
Abstract
We describe the natural gluing map on sutured Floer homology which is induced by the inclusion of one sutured manifold (M',') into a larger sutured manifold (M,), together with a contact structure on M-M'. As an application of this gluing map, we produce a (1+1)-dimensional TQFT by dimensional reduction and study its properties.
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