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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

In \cite{MR1957829}, Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o use Heegaard Floer homology to define numerical invariants $d_{1/2}$ and $d_{-1/2}$ for 3-manifolds $Y$ with $H_{1}(Y;\mathbb{Z})\cong \mathbb{Z}$. We define involutive Heegaard Floer theoretic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Peter K. Johnson

We establish some new relationships between Milnor invariants and Heegaard Floer homology. This includes a formula for the Milnor triple linking number from the link Floer complex, detection results for the Whitehead link and Borromean…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Eugene Gorsky , Tye Lidman , Beibei Liu , Allison H. Moore

We describe a new method for combinatorially computing the transverse invariant in knot Floer homology. Previous work of the authors and Stone used braid diagrams to combinatorially compute knot Floer homology of braid closures. However,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Peter Lambert-Cole , David Shea Vela-Vick

We define an invariant of transverse links in the standard contact 3-sphere as a distinguished element of the Khovanov homology of the link. The quantum grading of this invariant is the self-linking number of the link. For knots, this gives…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olga Plamenevskaya

Conjecturally, there are only finitely many Heegaard Floer L-space knots in $S^3$ of a given genus. We examine this conjecture for twist families of knots $\{K_n\}$ obtained by twisting a knot $K$ in $S^3$ along an unknot $c$ in terms of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Kenneth L. Baker , Kimihiko Motegi

Given a knot presented as a braid closure, we construct a unified intersection model for the Alexander and Jones polynomials of the knot via what we call quantum Heegaard diagrams. These diagrams are obtained by stabilising the disc model…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel , András Juhász

This survey explores knot polynomials and their categorification, culminating in the homological invariants of knots. We begin with an overview of classical knot polynomials, progressing towards the superpolynomial and its role in unifying…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Shivrat Sachdeva

The $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomlogy $\widehat{HF}_{\mathbb{Z}_{2}}(\Sigma(K))$ of a knot $K$ in $S^{3}$, constructed by Hendricks, Lipshitz, and Sarkar, is an isotopy invariant which is defined using bridge diagrams of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Sungkyung Kang

If a 3--manifold $Y$ contains a non-separating sphere, then some twisted Heegaard Floer homology of $Y$ is zero. This simple fact allows us to prove several results about Dehn surgery on knots in such manifolds. Similar results have been…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Yi Ni

Bordered Floer homology assigns invariants to 3-manifolds with boundary, such that the Heegaard Floer homology of a closed 3-manifold, split into two pieces, can be recovered as a tensor product of the bordered invariants of the pieces. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Christopher L. Douglas , Robert Lipshitz , Ciprian Manolescu

Using a Heegaard diagram for the pullback of a knot $K \subset S^3$ in its cyclic double branched cover $\Sigma_2(K)$, we give a combinatorial proof for the invariance of knot Floer homology over $\mathbb{Z}$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Fatemeh Douroudian

The knot Floer complex and the concordance invariant $\varepsilon$ can be used to define a filtration on the smooth concordance group. We exhibit an ordered subset of this filtration that is isomorphic to $\mathbb{N} \times \mathbb{N}$ and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Joshua Tobin

Ozsvath and Szabo conjectured that knot Floer homology detects fibred knots. We propose a strategy to approach this conjecture based on Gabai's theory of sutured manifold decomposition and contact topology. We implement this strategy for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ghiggini

Real Heegaard Floer homology is an invariant associated to a three-manifold equipped with an involution with nonempty fixed set of codimension two. We show that when the image of the fixed point set is nullhomologous in the quotient, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Eha Srivastava

Given a grid presentation of a knot (or link) K in the three-sphere, we describe a Heegaard diagram for the knot complement in which the Heegaard surface is a torus and all elementary domains are squares. Using this diagram, we obtain a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath , Sucharit Sarkar

From a handlebody-theoretic perspective, the simplest compact, contractible 4-manifolds, other than the 4-ball, are Mazur manifolds. We produce the first pairs of Mazur manifolds that are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. Our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Kyle Hayden , Thomas E. Mark , Lisa Piccirillo

In this paper we investigate the Alexander polynomial of (1,1)-knots, which are knots lying in a 3-manifold with genus one at most, admitting a particular decomposition. More precisely, we study the connections between the Alexander…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alessia Cattabriga

We give combinatorial descriptions of the Heegaard Floer homology groups for arbitrary three-manifolds (with coefficients in Z/2). The descriptions are based on presenting the three-manifold as an integer surgery on a link in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath , Dylan Thurston

In an earlier paper, we introduced a collection of graded Abelian groups $\HFKa(Y,K)$ associated to knots in a three-manifold. The aim of the present paper is to investigate these groups for several specific families of knots, including the…

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