Naturality and functoriality in involutive Heegaard Floer homology

Abstract

We prove first-order naturality of involutive Heegaard Floer homology, and furthermore construct well-defined maps on involutive Heegaard Floer homology associated to cobordisms between three-manifolds. We also prove analogous naturality and functoriality results for involutive Floer theory for knots and links. The proof relies on the doubling model for the involution, as well as several variations.

v3. 107 pages. Accepted for publication in Quantum Topology