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Skein relations for tangle Floer homology

Geometric Topology 2023-03-14 v3

Abstract

In a previous paper, V\'ertesi and the first author used grid-like Heegaard diagrams to define tangle Floer homology, which associates to a tangle TT a differential graded bimodule CT~(T)\widetilde{\mathrm{CT}} (T). If LL is obtained by gluing together T1,,TmT_1, \dotsc, T_m, then the knot Floer homology HFK^(L)\hat{\mathrm{HFK}}(L) of LL can be recovered from CT~(T1),,CT~(Tm)\widetilde{\mathrm{CT}} (T_1), \dotsc, \widetilde{\mathrm{CT}} (T_m). In the present paper, we prove combinatorially that tangle Floer homology satisfies unoriented and oriented skein relations, generalizing the skein exact triangles for knot Floer homology.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04065,
  title  = {Skein relations for tangle Floer homology},
  author = {Ina Petkova and C. -M. Michael Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04065},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

72 pages, 48 figures, 5 tables. Minor revisions

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