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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

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 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 present a braid-theoretic approach to combinatorially computing knot Floer homology. To a knot or link K, which is braided about the standard disk open book decomposition for (S^3,\xi_std), we associate a corresponding multi-pointed nice…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Peter Lambert-Cole , Michaela Stone , David Shea Vela-Vick

The first and third authors recently proved that for each knot $K\subset S^3$ there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to $K$. In this paper, we remove the hyperbolic constraint, proving that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-25 John A. Baldwin , Jonathan Hanselman , Steven Sivek

Based on the data of 12-17-crossing knots, we establish three new conjectures about the hyperbolic volume and knot cohomology: (1) There exists a constant $a \in R_{>0}$ such that the percentage of knots for which the following inequality…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Ekaterina S. Ivshina

A slope $\frac pq$ is called a characterizing slope for a given knot $K_0$ in $S^3$ if whenever the $\frac pq$-surgery on a knot $K$ in $S^3$ is homeomorphic to the $\frac pq$-surgery on $K_0$ via an orientation preserving homeomorphism,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Yi Ni , Xingru Zhang

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

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

Given a grid diagram for a knot or link K in $S^3$, we construct a filtered spectrum whose homology is the knot Floer homology of K. We conjecture that the filtered homotopy type of the spectrum is an invariant of K. Our construction does…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ciprian Manolescu , Sucharit Sarkar

In a recent paper, the first author and his collaborator developed a method to compute an upper bound of the dimension of instanton Floer homology via Heegaard Diagrams of 3-manifolds. For a knot inside S3, we further develop an algorithm…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Zhenkun Li , Yi Liang

The knot Floer order $\operatorname{Ord}(K)$ is a knot invariant derived from knot Floer homology that provides bounds on many other invariants, such as the bridge index $\operatorname{br}(K)$ for which $\operatorname{Ord}(K) + 1 \leq…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-26 David Suchodoll

In this paper we will associate a family $\{K_1,\dots,K_l\}\subset \mathbb{S}^3$ of iterated torus knots to a given free numerical semigroup. We will describe the fundamental group of the knot complement of each knot of the family. Finally,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Patricio Almirón , Adrián Olivares-Fernández

We classify genus-two L-space knots in the Poincar\'e homology sphere. This leads to the second knot Floer homology detection result for a knot of genus at least two, and the first such result outside of $S^3$. The argument uses the theory…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Braeden Reinoso

In this paper we extend the idea of bordered Floer homology to knots and links in $S^3$: Using a specific Heegaard diagram, we construct gluable combinatorial invariants of tangles in $S^3$, $D^3$ and $I\times S^2$. The special case of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Ina Petkova , Vera Vertesi

Using a combinatorial approach described in a recent paper of Manolescu, Ozsv\'ath, and Sarkar we compute the Heegaard-Floer knot homology of all knots with at most 12 crossings as well as the $\tau$ invariant for knots through 11…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John A. Baldwin , W. D. Gillam

We present knot primality tests that are built from knot Floer homology. The most basic of these is a simply stated and elementary consequence of Heegaard Floer theory: if the two-variable knot Floer polynomial of a knot K is irreducible,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Samantha Allen , Charles Livingston , Misha Temkin , C. -M. Michael Wong

In joint work with J. Rasmussen, we gave an interpretation of Heegaard Floer homology for manifolds with torus boundary in terms of immersed curves in a punctured torus. In particular, knot Floer homology is captured by this invariant.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jonathan Hanselman , Liam Watson

For each partial flag manifold of SU(N), we define a Floer homology theory for knots in 3-manifolds, using instantons with codimension-2 singularities.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 P. B. Kronheimer , T. S. Mrowka

We prove that the knot Floer homology of a fibered knot is nontrivial in its next-to-top Alexander grading. Immediate applications include new proofs of Krcatovich's result that knots with $L$-space surgeries are prime and Hedden and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 John A. Baldwin , David Shea Vela-Vick