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We study a relationship between the Heegaard Floer homology correction terms of integral homology spheres and the word metric on the Torelli group. For example, we give an elementary proof that the Cayley graph of the Torelli group has…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Santana Afton , Miriam Kuzbary , Tye Lidman

We complete the first step in a two-part program proposed by Baker, Grigsby, and the author to prove that Berge's construction of knots in the three-sphere which admit lens space surgeries is complete. The first step, which we prove here,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Matthew Hedden

In this paper we study the knot Floer homology of a subfamily of twisted $(p, q)$ torus knots where $q \equiv\pm1$ (mod $p$). Specifically, we classify the knots in this subfamily that admit L-space surgeries. To do calculations, we use the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Faramarz Vafaee

Every element in the first cohomology group of a 3--manifold is dual to embedded surfaces. The Thurston norm measures the minimal `complexity' of such surfaces. For instance the Thurston norm of a knot complement determines the genus of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Friedl , Taehee Kim

In the homology cobordism group $\Theta_\mathbb{Z}^3$, it is not known if there are non-trivial linear dependences between Seifert fibered spheres. Based on involutive Heegaard Floer theory, Hendricks, Manolescu, and Zemke introduced the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jaewon Lee , Oğuz Şavk

In an earlier work, we introduced a family of t-modified knot Floer homologies, defined by modifying the construction of knot Floer homology HFK-minus. The resulting groups were then used to define concordance homomorphisms indexed by t in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Peter Ozsvath , Andras Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

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

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

Motivated by the L-space conjecture, we investigate various notions of order-detection of slopes on knot manifolds. These notions are designed to characterise when rational homology 3-spheres obtained by gluing compact manifolds along torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Steven Boyer , Adam Clay

In math.DG/9903083 (henceforth referred to as EA) we defined an integer invariant $h(Y)$ for oriented integral homology 3-spheres $Y$ which only depends on the rational homology cobordism class of $Y$ and is additive under connected sums.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kim Anders Froyshov

We consider the question of when a rational homology 3-sphere is rational homology cobordant to a connected sum of lens spaces. We prove that every rational homology cobordism class in the subgroup generated by lens spaces is represented by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Paolo Aceto , Daniele Celoria , JungHwan Park

We prove a basic inequality for the d-invariants of a splice of knots in homology spheres. As a result, we are able to prove a new relation on the rank of reduced Floer homology under maps between Seifert fibered homology spheres, improving…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Cagri Karakurt , Tye Lidman , Eamonn Tweedy

The Heegaard Floer correction term ($d$-invariant) is an invariant of rational homology 3-spheres equipped with a Spin$^c$ structure. In particular, the correction term of 1-surgeries along knots in $S^3$ is a ($2\mathbb{Z}$-valued) knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Kouki Sato

We show that the torsion order $\mathrm{Ord}(K)$ of a knot $K$ in knot Floer homology gives a lower bound on the minimum number $n$ such that an oriented $(n+1)$-tangle replacement unknots $K$. This generalizes earlier results by Alishahi…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Eaman Eftekhary

We show that the properties of admitting a co-oriented taut foliation and having a left-orderable fundamental group are equivalent for rational homology $3$-sphere graph manifolds and relate them to the property of not being a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Steven Boyer , Adam Clay

To each knot $K\subset S^3$ one can associated its knot Floer homology $\hat{HFK}(K)$, a finitely generated bigraded abelian group. In general, the nonzero ranks of these homology groups lie on a finite number of slope one lines with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Adam Lowrance

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 classify all the $n$-component links in the $3$-sphere that bound a Thurston norm minimizing Seifert surface $\Sigma$ with Euler characteristic $\chi(\Sigma)=n-2$ and that are nearly fibered, which means that their rank of the maximal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Alberto Cavallo , Irena Matkovič

We bring to light a new connection between dynamics and Heegaard Floer homology. On a closed 3-manifold $Y$ we consider a pseudo-Anosov flow $\phi$ with no perfect fits with respect to its singularity locus $L \subset Y$, or perhaps a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Antonio Alfieri , Chi Cheuk Tsang

This is the third paper of this series. In \cite{Wang20}, we defined the monopole Floer homology for any pair $(Y,\omega)$, where $Y$ is a compact oriented 3-manifold with toroidal boundary and $\omega$ is a suitable closed 2-form viewed as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Donghao Wang