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As proved by Hedden and Ording, there exist knots for which the Ozsvath-Szabo and Rasmussen smooth concordance invariants, tau and s, differ. The Hedden-Ording examples have nontrivial Alexander polynomials and are not topologically slice.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-18 Charles Livingston

We address primary decomposition conjectures for knot concordance groups, which predict direct sum decompositions into primary parts. We show that the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots has a large subgroup for which the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Jae Choon Cha

Fixing two concordant links in $3$--space, we study the set of all embedded concordances between them, as knotted annuli in $4$--space. When regarded up to surface-concordance or link-homotopy, the set $\mathcal{C}(L)$ of concordances from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Jean-Baptiste Meilhan , Akira Yasuhara

Knot Floer homology is a knot invariant defined using holomorphic curves. In more recent work, taking cues from bordered Floer homology,the authors described another knot invariant, called "bordered knot Floer homology", which has an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Zoltan Szabo , Peter Ozsvath

We prove that twisted correction terms in Heegaard Floer homology provide lower bounds on the Thurston norm of certain cohomology classes determined by the strong concordance class of a 2-component link $L$ in $S^3$. We then specialise this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Daniele Celoria , Marco Golla

Using a Heegaard diagram for the pullback of a knot $K \subset S^3$ in its cyclic branched cover $\Sigma_m(K)$ obtained from a grid diagram for $K$, we give a combinatorial proof for the invariance of the associated combinatorial knot Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Fatemeh Douroudian , Iman Setayesh

We define several equivariant concordance invariants using knot Floer homology. We show that our invariants provide a lower bound for the equivariant slice genus and use this to give a family of strongly invertible slice knots whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Irving Dai , Abhishek Mallick , Matthew Stoffregen

In an earlier paper, we introduced a knot invariant for a null-homologous knot K in an oriented three-manifold Y, which is closely related to the Heegaard Floer homology of Y. In this paper we investigate some properties of these knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We introduce a framework to analyze knots and links in an unmarked solid torus. We discuss invariants that detect when such links are equivalent under an ambient homeomorphism, and show that the multivariable Alexander polynomial is such in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-20 John M. Sullivan , Max Zahoransky von Worlik

For all n > 0 there is a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group of knots in dimension 2n + 1 to an algebraically defined group called the rational algebraic concordance group. This algebraic concordance group splits as a direct sum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Charles Livingston

We use Heegaard Floer homology to give obstructions to unknotting a knot with a single crossing change. These restrictions are particularly useful in the case where the knot in question is alternating. As an example, we use them to classify…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

Two Heegaard Floer knot complexes are called stably equivalent if an acyclic complex can be added to each complex to make them filtered chain homotopy equivalent. Hom showed that if two knots are concordant, then their knot complexes are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Samantha Allen

We define several concordance invariants using knot Floer homology which give improvements over known slice genus and clasp number bounds from Heegaard Floer homology. We also prove that the involutive correction terms of Hendricks and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-06 András Juhász , 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

We show that for each Seifert form of an algebraically slice knot with nontrivial Alexander polynomial, there exists an infinite family of knots having the Seifert form such that the knots are linearly independent in the knot concordance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Taehee Kim

We introduce a new technique for showing classical knots and links are not slice. As one application we resolve a long-standing question as to whether certain natural families of knots contain topologically slice knots. We also present a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-29 Tim D. Cochran , Shelly Harvey , Constance Leidy

We construct an infinite family of smoothly slice knots that we prove are topologically doubly slice. Using the correction terms coming from Heegaard Floer homology, we show that none of these knots is smoothly doubly slice. We use these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jeffrey Meier

We construct $S^r$-colored knot Floer homologies and prove that they satisfy categorified recurrence relations. The associated Euler characteristic implies $q$-holonomicity of the corresponding sequence of colored Alexander polynomials, in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Benjamin Cooper , Robert Deyeso

We give a combinatorial treatment of transverse homology, a new invariant of transverse knots that is an extension of knot contact homology. The theory comes in several flavors, including one that is an invariant of topological knots and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-08 Lenhard Ng

We review the use of grid diagrams in the development of Heegaard Floer theory. We describe the construction of the combinatorial link Floer complex, and the resulting algorithm for unknot detection. We also explain how grid diagrams can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Ciprian Manolescu