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Let $U$ be a smooth connected complex algebraic variety, and let $f\colon U\to \mathbb C^*$ be an algebraic map. To the pair $(U,f)$ one can associate an infinite cyclic cover $U^f$, and (homology) Alexander modules are defined as the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Eva Elduque , Moisés Herradón Cueto

We prove that knot Floer homology of a certain class of knots is non-trivial in next-to-top Alexander grading. This gives a partial affirmative answer to a question posed by Baldwin and Vela-Vick which asks if the same is true for all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Subhankar Dey

We define new algebras, local bimodules, and bimodule maps in the spirit of Ozsvath-Szabo's bordered knot Floer homology. We equip them with the structure of 2-representations of the categorified negative half U^- of U_q(gl(1|1)),…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Andrew Manion

Let $K$ denote a knot inside the homology sphere $Y$ and $K'$ denote a knot inside a homology sphere $L$-space. Let $X=Y(K,K')$ denote the 3-manifold obtained by splicing the complements of $K$ and $K'$. We show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Narges Bagherifard , Eaman Eftekhary

We study the maps induced on link Floer homology by elementary decorated link cobordisms. We compute these for births, deaths, stabilizations, and destabilizations, and show that saddle cobordisms can be computed in terms of maps in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-31 András Juhász , Marco Marengon

Inspired by the $S^n$ colored version of Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homology, we define a colored version of knot Floer homology by studying the colimit of a directed system of link Floer homology with infinite full twists.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Akram Alishahi , Eugene Gorsky , Beibei Liu

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

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots in the three-sphere for which the Euler characteristic is the Alexander-Conway polynomial of the knot. The aim of this paper is to study this homology for a class of satellite knots, so as to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Yuanyuan Bao

Bordered Heegaard Floer homology is an invariant for 3-manifolds, which associates to a surface F an algebra A(F), and to a 3-manifold Y with boundary, together with an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism from F to the boundary of Y, a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Ina Petkova

We decategorify the higher actions on bordered Heegaard Floer strands algebras from recent work of Rouquier and the author and identify the decategorifications with certain actions on exterior powers of homology groups of surfaces. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Andrew Manion

We define a "reduced" version of the knot Floer complex $CFK^-(K)$, and show that it behaves well under connected sums and retains enough information to compute Heegaard Floer $d$-invariants of manifolds arising as surgeries on the knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-04 David Krcatovich

Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a knot with a fixed positive crossing and $\mathcal{L}_n$ the link obtained by replacing this crossing with $n$ positive twists. We prove that the knot Floer homology $\widehat{\text{HFK}}(\mathcal{L}_n)$ `stabilizes'…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Peter Lambert-Cole

We define three different types of spanning surfaces for knots in thickened surfaces. We use these to introduce new Seifert matrices, Alexander-type polynomials, genera, and a signature invariant. One of these Alexander polynomials extends…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-18 András Juhász , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

The Burau representation of braid groups and knot Floer homology share a link to the Fox calculus. We make this connection explicit, with the following outcome: if $B$ is the full Burau matrix of any braid, and $A$ is any square submatrix…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Joe Boninger

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 an equivariant knot $K$ of order $2$, we study the induced action of the symmetry on the knot Floer homology. We relate this action with the induced action of the symmetry on the Heegaard Floer homology of large surgeries on $K$. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Abhishek Mallick

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

We study the sutured Floer homology invariants of the sutured manifold obtained by cutting a knot complement along a Seifert surface, R. We show that these invariants are finer than the "top term" of the knot Floer homology, which they…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Matthew Hedden , Andras Juhasz , Sucharit Sarkar

We construct a bigraded spectral sequence from the gl(0)-homology to knot Floer homology. This spectral sequence is of Bockstein type and comes from a subtle manipulation of coefficients. The main tools are quantum traces of foams and of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Krzysztof K Putyra , Anna Beliakova , Louis-Hadrien Robert , Emmanuel Wagner

We exhibit the first example of a knot in the three-sphere with a pair of minimal genus Seifert surfaces that can be distinguished using the sutured Floer homology of their complementary manifolds together with the Spin^c-grading. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Irida Altman