An unoriented skein exact triangle in unoriented link Floer homology
Geometric Topology
2025-05-05 v2
Abstract
We define band maps in unoriented link Floer homology and show that they form an unoriented skein exact triangle. These band maps are similar to the band maps in equivariant Khovanov homology given by the Lee deformation. As a key tool, we use a Heegaard Floer analogue of Bhat's recent 2-surgery exact triangle in instanton Floer homology, which may be of independent interest. Unoriented knot Floer homology corresponds to of the knot in our 2-surgery exact triangle.
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@article{arxiv.2501.01047,
title = {An unoriented skein exact triangle in unoriented link Floer homology},
author = {Gheehyun Nahm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01047},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
63 pages, 30 figures, comments welcome! v2: Fixed minor mistakes and improved the exposition