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Suppose that a hyperbolic knot in $S^3$ admits a finite surgery, Boyer and Zhang proved that the surgery slope must be either integral or half-integral, and they conjectured that the latter case does not happen. Using the correction terms…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-07 Eileen Li , Yi Ni

By recent results of Baker--Etnyre--Van Horn-Morris, a rational open book decomposition defines a compatible contact structure. We show that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant of such a contact structure can be computed in terms of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Matthew Hedden , Olga Plamenevskaya

Let $K$ be a rationally null-homologous knot in a three-manifold $Y$. We construct a version of knot Floer homology in this context, including a description of the Floer homology of a three-manifold obtained as Morse surgery on the knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

Let K \subset Y be a knot in a three manifold which admits a longitude-framed surgery such that the surgered manifold has first Betti number greater than that of Y. We find a formula which computes the twisted Floer homology of the surgered…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Evan Fink

The aim of this article is to introduce invariants of oriented, smooth, closed four-manifolds, built using the Floer homology theories defined in two earlier papers (math.SG/0101206 and math.SG/0105202). This four-dimensional theory also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter S Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

Consider an unknot $c$ in $S^3$ and a knot $K$ in ${S^3-N(c)}$. Twisting the knot $K$ along $c$, or equivalently applying $\frac{1}{m}$-surgery on $c$, produces a family of knots $\{K_m\}_{m \in \mathbb{Z}}$. We use bordered Floer homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Soheil Azarpendar

Given a connected cobordism between two knots in the 3-sphere, our main result is an inequality involving torsion orders of the knot Floer homology of the knots, and the number of local maxima and the genus of the cobordism. This has…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-04 András Juhász , Maggie Miller , Ian Zemke

Let $K$ be a null-homologous knot in a three-manifold $Y$. We give a description of the Heegaard Floer homology of integer surgeries on $Y$ along $K$ in terms of the filtered homotopy type of the knot invariant for $K$. As an illustration,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-12-08 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We construct a new family of skein exact triangles for link Floer homology. The skein triples are described by a triple of rational tangles $(R_0,R_1,R_{2n+1})$, where $R_0$ is the trivial tangle and $R_k$ is obtained from it by applying…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Eaman Eftekhary

We continue our study of the integer-valued knot invariants $\nu^\sharp(K)$ and $r_0(K)$, which together determine the dimensions of the framed instanton homologies of all nonzero Dehn surgeries on $K$. We first establish a "conjugation"…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-17 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

In the bordered Floer theory, gluing thickened torus of positive meridional Dehn twist to the boundary of a knot complement result in the knot complement of increased framing. For a fixed knot K, we construct a direct system of positively…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Jaepil Lee

We show that a decorated knot concordance $C$ from $K$ to $K'$ induces a homomorphism $F_C$ on knot Floer homology that preserves the Alexander and Maslov gradings. Furthermore, it induces a morphism of the spectral sequences to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Andras Juhasz , Marco Marengon

Floer theory was originally devised to estimate the number of 1-periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems. In earlier works, we constructed Floer homology for homoclinic orbits on two dimensional manifolds using combinatorial techniques. In…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Sonja Hohloch

We introduce a homology surgery problem in dimension 3 which has the property that the vanishing of its algebraic obstruction leads to a canonical class of \pi-algebraically-split links in 3-manifolds with fundamental group \pi . Using this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Stavros Garoufalidis , Jerome Levine

We review some recent results in knot concordance and homology cobordism. The proofs rely on various forms of Heegaard Floer homology. We also discuss related open problems.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Jennifer Hom

We show that if a positive integral surgery on a knot K inside a homology sphere X with Seifert genus g(K) results in an induced knot K_n in X_n(K)=Y which has simple Floer homology, we should have n>=2g(K). Moreover, if X is the standard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Eaman Eftekhary

We set up Heegaard Floer theory over the integers, using canonical orientations coming from coupled Spin structures on the Lagrangian tori. We prove naturality of Heegaard Floer homology, sutured Floer homology, and link Floer homology over…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Mohammed Abouzaid , Ciprian Manolescu

We modify the construction of knot Floer homology to produce a one-parameter family of homologies for knots in the three-sphere. These invariants can be used to give homomorphisms from the smooth concordance group to the integers, giving…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Peter Ozsvath , Andras Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We prove a formula for the conjugation action on the knot Floer complex of the connected sum of two knots. Using the formula we construct a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group to an abelian group consisting of chain complexes…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Ian Zemke

We give a precise description of splicing formulas from a previous paper in terms of knot Floer complex associated with a knot in homology sphere.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Eaman Eftekhary