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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 Cabling Conjecture of Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na and Short holds that only cable knots admit Dehn surgery to a manifold containing an essential sphere. We approach this conjecture for thin knots using Heegaard Floer homology, primarily via…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Robert DeYeso

We compute different versions of link Floer homology $HFL^{-}$ and $\widehat{HFL}$ for any $L$-space link with two components. The main approach is to compute the $h$-function of the filtered chain complex which is determined by the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Beibei Liu

Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be orientable irreducible 3--manifolds with connected boundary and suppose $\partial M_1\cong\partial M_2$. Let $M$ be a closed 3--manifold obtained by gluing $M_1$ to $M_2$ along the boundary. We show that if the gluing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tao Li

Let $K$ be a knot in an L-space $Y$ with a Dehn surgery to a surface bundle over $S^1$. We prove that $K$ is rationally fibered, that is, the knot complement admits a fibration over $S^1$. As part of the proof, we show that if $K\subset Y$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yi Ni , Faramarz Vafaee

We give a formula for the duality structure of the 3-manifold obtained by doing zero-framed surgery along a knot in the 3-sphere, starting from a diagram of the knot. We then use this to give a combinatorial algorithm for computing the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Allison N. Miller , Mark Powell

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

For a closed 4-manifold X and closed 3-manifold M we investigate the smallest integer n (perhaps infinity) such that M embeds in the connected sum of n copies of X. It is proven that any lens space (or homology lens space) embeds…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Allan L. Edmonds

We prove for the first time that knot Floer homology and Khovanov homology can detect non-fibered knots, and that HOMFLY homology detects infinitely many such knots; these theories were previously known to detect a mere six knots, all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-29 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

Let Y(r) be the closed, oriented three-manifold obtained by performing rational r-surgery on the right-handed trefoil knot in the three-sphere. Using contact surgery and the Heegaard Floer contact invariants we construct positive, tight…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Lisca , A. I. Stipsicz

An $L$-space knot is a knot that admits a positive Dehn surgery yielding an $L$-space. Many known hyperbolic $L$-space knots are braid positive, meaning they can be represented as the closure of a positive braid. Recently, Baker and Kegel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Keisuke Himeno

Inspired by the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o mixed invariant in ordinary Heegaard Floer theory, we define a mixed invariant $\Phi_{X, \mathfrak{s}}^{I}$ for closed, spin four-manifolds $(X, \mathfrak{s})$ using the cobordism maps on involutive…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Owen Brass

Some aspects of the construction of SW Floer homology for manifolds with non-trivial rational homology are analyzed. In particular, the case of manifolds that are obtained as zero-surgery on a knot in a homology sphere, and for torsion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matilde Marcolli , Bai-Ling Wang

An immersed concordance between two links is a concordance with possible self-intersections. Given an immersed concordance we construct a smooth four-dimensional cobordism between surgeries on links. By applying $d$-invariant inequalities…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Maciej Borodzik , Eugene Gorsky

We prove that if $M$ is a rational homology sphere that is a Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link, then $M$ is not an $L$-space if and only if $M$ supports a coorientable taut foliation. The left orderability of some of these manifolds is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Diego Santoro

We give a method for constructing many pairs of distinct knots $K_0$ and $K_1$ such that the two 4-manifolds obtained by attaching a 2-handle to $B^4$ along $K_i$ with framing zero are diffeomorphic. We use the d-invariants of Heegaard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Allison N. Miller , Lisa Piccirillo

We prove that if positive integer p-surgery along a knot K \subset S^3 produces an L-space and it bounds a sharp 4-manifold, then the knot genus obeys the bound 2g(K) -1 \leq p - \sqrt{3p+1}. Moreover, there exists an infinite family of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-01-09 Joshua Evan Greene

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 show that if K is a non-trivial knot inside a homology sphere Y, then the rank of knot Floer homology associated with K is strictly bigger than the rank of Heegaard Floer homology of Y.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Eaman Eftekhary

Using the link surgery formula for Heegaard Floer homology we find a spectral sequence from the lattice homology of a plumbing tree to the Heegaard Floer homology of the corresponding 3-manifold. This spectral sequence shows that for graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Peter Ozsváth , András I. Stipsicz , Zoltán Szabó