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Framed instanton homology and Fr{\o}yshov's invariant

Geometric Topology 2025-11-25 v1

Abstract

We determine the framed instanton homology with coefficients in F=Z/2\mathbb F = \mathbb Z/2 for Dehn surgeries on a knot in the 33-sphere. The dimension of these groups is seen to have a close relationship with a homology cobordism invariant due to Froyshov. As an application, we show that rr-surgery on a non-trivial knot cannot be nondegenerate SU(2)SU(2)-abelian for any r4g(K)/2|r| \le 4\lceil g(K)/2\rceil, which is 2g(K)2g(K) for gg even and 2g(K)+22g(K) + 2 for gg odd.

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@article{arxiv.2511.18885,
  title  = {Framed instanton homology and Fr{\o}yshov's invariant},
  author = {Sudipta Ghosh and Mike Miller Eismeier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18885},
  year   = {2025}
}

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