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To a nullhomologous knot $K$ in a 3-manifold $Y$, knot Floer homology associates a bigraded chain complex over $\mathbb{F}[U,V]$ as well as a collection of flip maps; we show that this data can be interpretted as a collection of decorated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Jonathan Hanselman

We review the construction of Heegaard Floer homology for closed three-manifolds and also for knots and links in the three-sphere. We also discuss three applications of this invariant to knot theory: studying the Thurston norm of a link…

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

For pattern knots admitting genus-one bordered Heegaard diagrams, we show the knot Floer chain complexes of the corresponding satellite knots can be computed using immersed curves. This, in particular, gives a convenient way to compute the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Wenzhao Chen

This paper establishes a new technique that enables us to access some fundamental structural properties of instanton Floer homology. As an application, we establish, for the first time, a relation between the instanton Floer homology of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Zhenkun Li , Fan Ye

We define sutured Heegaard diagrams for null-homologous knots in 3-manifolds. These diagrams are useful for computing the knot Floer homology at the top filtration level. As an application, we give a formula for the knot Floer homology of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Yi Ni

We explore a somewhat unexpected connection between knot Floer homology and shellable posets, via grid diagrams. Given a grid presentation of a knot K inside S^3, we define a poset which has an associated chain complex whose homology is the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Sucharit Sarkar

We extend knot Floer homology to string links in D^{2} \times I and to d-based links in arbitrary three manifolds, without any hypothesis on the null-homology of the components. As for knot Floer homology we obtain a description of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Lawrence Roberts

We define Floer homology theories for oriented, singular knots in S^3 and show that one of these theories can be defined combinatorially for planar singular knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Peter Ozsvath , Andras I. Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We show that every 3--manifold admits a Heegaard diagram in which a truncated version of Heegaard Floer homology (when the holomorpic disks pass through the basepoints at most once) can be computed combinatorially.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-24 Peter Ozsvath , Andras Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We discuss a relationship between Khovanov- and Heegaard Floer-type homology theories for braids. Explicitly, we define a filtration on the bordered Heegaard-Floer homology bimodule associated to the double-branched cover of a braid and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Denis Auroux , J. Elisenda Grigsby , Stephan M. Wehrli

Using bordered Floer theory, we give a combinatorial construction and proof of invariance for the hat version of Heegaard Floer homology. As a part of the proof, we also establish combinatorially the invariance of the linear-categorical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Bohua Zhan

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

Let L be a link in an thickened annulus. We specify the embedding of this annulus in the three sphere, and consider its complement thought of as the axis to L. In the right circumstances this axis lifts to a null-homologous knot in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lawrence P. Roberts

Given a diagram of a link K in S^3, we write down a Heegaard diagram for the branched-double cover Sigma(K). The generators of the associated Heegaard Floer chain complex correspond to Kauffman states of the link diagram. Using this model…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Joshua Greene

We prove that the knot Floer complex of a fibered knot detects whether the monodromy of its fibration is right-veering. In particular, this leads to a purely knot Floer-theoretic characterization of tight contact structures, by the work of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-07 John A. Baldwin , Yi Ni , Steven Sivek

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

In a previous paper, V\'ertesi and the first author used grid-like Heegaard diagrams to define tangle Floer homology, which associates to a tangle $T$ a differential graded bimodule $\widetilde{\mathrm{CT}} (T)$. If $L$ is obtained by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Ina Petkova , C. -M. Michael Wong

We develop purely algebraic methods for proving that a knot is prime. Our approach uses the Heegaard Floer polynomial in conjunction with classical knot-theoretic methods: cyclic, dihedral, and metacyclic covering spaces. The theory of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Samantha Allen , Charles Livingston

This paper is a short introduction to the combinatorial version of tangle Floer homology defined in "Combinatorial tangle Floer homology". There are two equivalent definitions---one in terms of strand diagrams, and one in terms of bordered…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Ina Petkova , Vera Vértesi

We give a bordered extension of involutive HF-hat and use it to give an algorithm to compute involutive HF-hat for general 3-manifolds. We also explain how the mapping class group action on HF-hat can be computed using bordered Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Kristen Hendricks , Robert Lipshitz