English

Twisting, mutation and knot Floer homology

Geometric Topology 2017-01-05 v2

Abstract

Let L\mathcal{L} be a knot with a fixed positive crossing and Ln\mathcal{L}_n the link obtained by replacing this crossing with nn positive twists. We prove that the knot Floer homology HFK^(Ln)\widehat{\text{HFK}}(\mathcal{L}_n) `stabilizes' as nn goes to infinity. This categorifies a similar stabilization phenomenon of the Alexander polynomial. As an application, we construct an infinite family of prime, positive mutant knots with isomorphic bigraded knot Floer homology groups. Moreover, given any pair of positive mutants, we describe how to derive a corresponding infinite family positive mutants with isomorphic bigraded HFK^\widehat{\text{HFK}} groups, Seifert genera, and concordance invariant τ\tau.

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@article{arxiv.1608.02011,
  title  = {Twisting, mutation and knot Floer homology},
  author = {Peter Lambert-Cole},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02011},
  year   = {2017}
}

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19 pages, 5 figures

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