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For a ribbon knot, it is a folk conjecture that the rank of its knot Floer homology must be 1 modulo 8, and another folk conjecture says the same about reduced Khovanov homology. We give the first counter-examples to both of these folk…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Nathan M. Dunfield , Sherry Gong , Thomas Hockenhull , Marco Marengon , Michael Willis

We construct cobordism maps for the \textit{minus} version of instanton knot homology associated to a \textit{specially decorated} knot cobordisms of arbitrary genus between two null-homologous knots in closed oriented $3$-manifolds. As an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Sudipta Ghosh , Zhenkun Li

We re-derive Manolescu's unoriented skein exact triangle for knot Floer homology over F_2 combinatorially using grid diagrams, and extend it to the case with Z coefficients by sign refinements. Iteration of the triangle gives a cube of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 C. -M. Michael Wong

Ozsvath and Szabo defined an analog of the Froyshov invariant in the form of a correction term for the grading in Heegaard Floer homology. Applying this to the double cover of the 3-sphere branched over a knot K, we obtain an invariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Ciprian Manolescu , Brendan Owens

We extend knot contact homology to a theory over the ring $\mathbb{Z}[\lambda^{\pm 1},\mu^{\pm 1}]$, with the invariant given topologically and combinatorially. The improved invariant, which is defined for framed knots in $S^3$ and can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-11 Lenhard Ng

Let $\widehat{\mathcal{C}}_\mathbb{Z}$ be the group consists of manifold-knot pairs $(Y,K)$ modulo homology concordance, where $Y$ is an integer homology sphere bounding an integer homology ball, and let $\mathcal{C}_\mathbb{Z}$ be the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Hugo Zhou

We prove that if two knots are concordant, their involutive knot Floer complexes satisfy a certain type of stable equivalence.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Kristen Hendricks , Jennifer Hom

Let K be a knot in S^3 of genus g and let n>0. We show that if rk HFK(K,g) < 2^{n+1} (where HFK denotes knot Floer homology), in particular if K is an alternating knot such that the leading coefficient a_g of its Alexander polynomial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Andras Juhasz

When $\mathbf{k}$ is a field, type D structures over the algebra $\mathbf{k}[u,v]/(uv)$ are equivalent to immersed curves decorated with local systems in the twice-punctured disk. Consequently, knot Floer homology, as a type D structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Artem Kotelskiy , Liam Watson , Claudius Zibrowius

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

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

We circumvent one of the roadblocks in associating Floer homotopy types to monotone Lagrangians, namely the curvature phenomena occurring in high dimensions. Given $N \ge 3$ and $R$ a connective $\mathbb E_1$-ring spectrum, there is a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat

We give an explicit construction of the Honda--Kazez--Mati\'c gluing maps in terms of contact handles. We use this to prove a duality result for turning a sutured manifold cobordism around, and to compute the trace in the sutured Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-01 András Juhász , Ian Zemke

A well-known conjecture states that for any $l$-component link $L$ in $S^3$, the rank of the knot Floer homology of $L$ (over any field) is less than or equal to $2^{l-1}$ times the rank of the reduced Khovanov homology of $L$. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-22 John A. Baldwin , Adam Simon Levine , Sucharit Sarkar

We derive symmetries and adjunction inequalities of the knot Floer homology groups which appear to be especially interesting for homologically essential knots. Furthermore, we obtain an adjunction inequality for cobordism maps in knot Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Bijan Sahamie

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

The flip symmetry on knot diagrams induces an involution on Khovanov homology. We prove that this involution is determined by its behavior on unlinks; in particular, it is the identity map when working over $\mathbb{F}_2$. This confirms a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Daren Chen , Hongjian Yang

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

This paper establishes the orderability of contact manifolds which are quotients of fillable contact manifolds under finite group actions compatible with the filling, the prototypical example being $\mathbb{R}P^{2n-1}$ as the quotient of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Dylan Cant , Eric Kilgore , Jun Zhang