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A proof of Dunfield-Gukov-Rasmussen Conjecture

Geometric Topology 2025-01-20 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In 2005 Dunfield, Gukov and Rasmussen conjectured an existence of the spectral sequence from the reduced triply graded Khovanov-Rozansky homology of a knot to its knot Floer homology defined by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o. The main result of this paper is a proof of this conjecture. For this purpose, we construct a bigraded spectral sequence from the gl0\mathfrak{gl}_0 homology constructed by the last two authors to the knot Floer homology. Using the fact that the gl0\mathfrak{gl}_0 homology comes equipped with a spectral sequence from the reduced triply graded homology, we obtain our main result. The first spectral sequence is of Bockstein type and comes from a subtle manipulation of coefficients. The main tools are quantum traces of foams and of singular Soergel bimodules and a Z\mathbb Z-valued cube of resolutions model for knot Floer homology originally constructed by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o over the field of two elements. As an application, we deduce that the gl0\mathfrak{gl}_0 homology as well as the reduced triply graded Khovanov-Rozansky one detect the unknot, the two trefoils, the figure eight knot and the cinquefoil.

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@article{arxiv.2210.00878,
  title  = {A proof of Dunfield-Gukov-Rasmussen Conjecture},
  author = {Anna Beliakova and Krzysztof K. Putyra and Louis-Hadrien Robert and Emmanuel Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00878},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

62 pages. This is an improved version of arXiv:2112.02428; v2:65 pages, version accepted to JEMS