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There has been a great deal of interest in understanding which knots are characterized by which of their Dehn surgeries. We study a 4-dimensional version of this question: which knots are determined by which of their traces? We prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-16 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We prove a Smith-type inequality for regular covering spaces in monopole Floer homology. Using the monopole Floer / Heegaard Floer correspondence, we deduce that if a 3-manifold Y admits a p^n-sheeted regular cover that is a Z/pZ-L-space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Tye Lidman , Ciprian Manolescu

Heegaard Floer homology and knot Floer homology are powerful invariants of 3-manifolds and links respectively. L-space knots are knots which admit Dehn surgeries to 3-manifolds with Heegaard Floer homology of minimal rank. In this paper we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Fraser Binns

We consider an effective action of a compact (n-1)-torus on a smooth 2n-manifold with isolated fixed points. We prove that under certain conditions the orbit space is a closed topological manifold. In particular, this holds for certain…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Anton Ayzenberg

We define the longitude Floer homology of a knot K in S^3 and show that it is a topological invariant of K. Some basic properties of these homology groups are derived. In particular, we show that they distinguish the genus of K. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Eaman Eftekhary

This paper is a survey on the Lickorish type construction of some kind of closed manifolds over simple convex polytopes. Inspired by Lickorish's theorem, we propose a method to describe certain families of manifolds over simple convex…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Zhi Lü , Wei Wang , Li Yu

If a knot is a nontrivial connected sum of positive torus knots, then it is not concordant to an L-space knot.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Charles Livingston

In this paper we define, for each aspherical orientable 3-manifold $M$ endowed with a \emph{torus splitting} $\c{T}$, a 2-dimensional fundamental $l_1$-class $[M]^{\c{T}}$ whose $l_1$-norm has similar properties as the Gromov simplicial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-09-26 P. Derbez

We show there exist infinitely many knots of every fixed genus $g\geq 2$ which do not admit surgery to an L-space, despite resembling algebraic knots and L-space knots in general: they are algebraically concordant to the torus knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Filip Misev , Gilberto Spano

It is known that connected sums of positive torus knots are not concordant to $L$-space knots. Here we consider differences of torus knots. The main result states that the subgroup of the concordance group generated by two positive torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Samantha Allen

An L-space is a rational homology 3-sphere with minimal Heegaard Floer homology. We give the first examples of hyperbolic L-spaces with no symmetries. In particular, unlike all previously known L-spaces, these manifolds are not double…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Nathan M. Dunfield , Neil R. Hoffman , Joan E. Licata

Algebraic knots are known to be iterated torus knots and to admit L-space surgeries. However, Hedden proved that there are iterated torus knots that admit L-space surgeries but are not algebraic. We present an infinite family of such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Shida Wang

We describe equivariant SL(2) and SL(3) homology for links in the solid torus via foam evaluation. The solid torus is replaced by 3-space with a distinguished line in it. Generators of state spaces for annular webs are represented by foams…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Rostislav Akhmechet , Mikhail Khovanov

Starting from a torus knot $\mathcal{K}$ in the lens space $L(p,-1)$, we construct a Lagrangian sub-manifold $L_{\mathcal{K}}$ in $\mathcal{X}=\big(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-1)\oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-1)\big)/\mathbb{Z}_p$ under…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jinghao Yu , Zhengyu Zong

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 present two examples of strongly invertible L-space knots whose surgeries are never the double branched cover of a Khovanov thin link in the 3-sphere. Consequently, these knots provide counterexamples to a conjectural characterization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Kenneth L. Baker , Marc Kegel , Duncan McCoy

We study closures of GL_2(R)-orbits on the total space of the Hodge bundle over the moduli space of curves under the assumption that they are algebraic manifolds. We show that, in the generic stratum, such manifolds are the whole stratum,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Martin Moeller

We compute the homotopy type of the moduli space of flat, unitary connections over aspherical surfaces, after stabilizing with respect to the rank of the underlying bundle. Over the orientable surface M^g, we show that this space has the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Daniel A. Ramras

We give a topological interpretation of the space of $L^2$-harmonic forms on Manifold with flat ends. It is an answer to an old question of J. Dodziuk. We also give a Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula for the $L^2$-Euler characteristic of some of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gilles Carron

In this paper, we focus on L-spaces for which the boundary maps of the Heegaard Floer chain complexes vanish. We collect such manifolds systematically by using the smoothing order on links.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Takuya Usui