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We compute the knot Floer filtration induced by a cable of the meridian of a knot in the manifold obtained by large integer surgery along the knot. We give a formula in terms of the original knot Floer complex of the knot in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Linh Truong

We prove that twisted correction terms in Heegaard Floer homology provide lower bounds on the Thurston norm of certain cohomology classes determined by the strong concordance class of a 2-component link $L$ in $S^3$. We then specialise this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Daniele Celoria , Marco Golla

Gompf showed that for $K$ in a certain family of double-twist knots, the swallow-follow operation makes $1/n$-surgery on $K \# -K$ into a cork boundary. We derive a general Floer-theoretic condition on $K$ under which this is the case. Our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Irving Dai , Abhishek Mallick , Ian Zemke

Attaching a Casson handle to a slice disk complement yields a smooth 4-manifold that is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^4$. We show that if two slice knots have sufficiently different knot Floer homology, then the resulting exotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Sean Eli , Jennifer Hom , Tye Lidman

It is known that every exotic smooth structure on a simply connected closed 4-manifold is determined by a codimention zero compact contractible Stein submanifold and an involution on its boundary. Such a pair is called a cork. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Selman Akbulut , Kouichi Yasui

We obtain a formula for the Heegaard Floer homology (hat theory) of the three-manifold $Y(K_1,K_2)$ obtained by splicing the complements of the knots $K_i\subset Y_i$, $i=1,2$, in terms of the knot Floer homology of $K_1$ and $K_2$. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Eaman Eftekhary

We compute the effect of concordance surgery, a generalization of knot surgery defined using a self-concordance of a knot, on the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o 4-manifold invariant. The formula involves the graded Lefschetz number of the concordance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-29 András Juhász , Ian Zemke

Using the Gordon-Litherland pairing, one can define invariants (signature, nullity, determinant) for ${\mathbb Z}/2$ null-homologous links in thickened surfaces. In this paper, we study the concordance properties of these invariants. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Hans U. Boden , Homayun Karimi

We solve a strong version of Problem 3.6 (D) in Kirby's list, that is, we show that for any integer $n$, there exist infinitely many mutually distinct knots such that $2$-handle additions along them with framing $n$ yield the same…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Tetsuya Abe , In Dae Jong

We show that for each Seifert form of an algebraically slice knot with nontrivial Alexander polynomial, there exists an infinite family of knots having the Seifert form such that the knots are linearly independent in the knot concordance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Taehee Kim

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

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

Concordance invariants of knots are derived from the instanton homology groups with local coefficients, as introduced in earlier work of the authors. These concordance invariants include a 1-parameter family of homomorphisms $f_{r}$, from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Peter B. Kronheimer , Tomasz S. Mrowka

Simple closed curves in the plane can be mapped to nontrivial knots under the action of origami foldings that allow the paper to self-intersect. We show all tame knot types may be produced in this manner, motivating the development of a new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Joseph Slote , Thomas Bertschinger

We describe a simple formula for computing the Heegaard Floer multicurve invariant of double tangles from the Heegaard Floer multicurve invariant of knot complements. A comparison with a similar multicurve invariant for Conway tangles in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Claudius Zibrowius

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

We use d invariants of the 2-fold branched cover to show nonsliceness of a set of algebraically slice knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Chen Zhang

Distinct knots K, K' can sometimes share a common p/q-framed Dehn surgery. A folk conjecture held that for a fixed pair of knots, this can occur for at most one value of p/q. We disprove this conjecture by constructing pairs of distinct…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Marc Kegel , Lisa Piccirillo

Given a knot K in S^3, let u^-(K) (respectively, u^+(K)) denote the minimum number of negative (respectively, positive) crossing changes among all unknotting sequences for K. We use knot Floer homology to construct the invariants l^-(K),…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Akram Alishahi , Eaman Eftekhary

The $m$-trace of a knot is the $4$-manifold obtained from $\mathbf{B}^4$ by attaching a $2$-handle along the knot with $m$-framing. In 2015, Abe, Jong, Luecke and Osoinach introduced a technique to construct infinitely many knots with the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Keiji Tagami