Knot Floer homology and Seifert surfaces
Geometric Topology
2014-10-01 v2
Abstract
Let K be a knot in S^3 of genus g and let n>0. We show that if rk HFK(K,g) < 2^{n+1} (where HFK denotes knot Floer homology), in particular if K is an alternating knot such that the leading coefficient a_g of its Alexander polynomial satisfies |a_g| <2^{n+1}, then K has at most n pairwise disjoint non-isotopic genus g Seifert surfaces. For n=1 this implies that K has a unique minimal genus Seifert surface up to isotopy.
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@article{arxiv.math/0702514,
title = {Knot Floer homology and Seifert surfaces},
author = {Andras Juhasz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702514},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, n=0 case corrected