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We define several equivariant concordance invariants using knot Floer homology. We show that our invariants provide a lower bound for the equivariant slice genus and use this to give a family of strongly invertible slice knots whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Irving Dai , Abhishek Mallick , Matthew Stoffregen

We extend the construction of upsilon-type invariants to null-homologous knots in rational homology three-spheres. By considering $m$-fold cyclic branched covers with $m$ a prime power, this extension provides new knot concordance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Antonio Alfieri , Daniele Celoria , Andras Stipsicz

We define a family of formal Khovanov brackets of a colored link depending on two parameters. The isomorphism classes of these brackets are invariants of framed colored links. The Bar-Natan functors applied to these brackets produce…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Anna Beliakova , Stephan Wehrli

We show that Rasmussen's invariant of knots, which is derived from Lee's variant of Khovanov homology, is equal to an analogous invariant derived from certain other filtered link homologies.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-06 Marco Mackaay , Paul Turner , Pedro Vaz

Kronheimer and Mrowka asked whether the difference between the four-dimensional clasp number and the slice genus can be arbitrarily large. This question is answered affirmatively by studying a knot invariant derived from equivariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Aliakbar Daemi , Christopher Scaduto

Based on work of Rasmussen, we construct a concordance invariant associated to the knot Floer complex, and exhibit examples in which this invariant gives arbitrarily better bounds on the 4-ball genus than the Ozsvath-Szabo tau invariant.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Jennifer Hom , Zhongtao Wu

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots discovered by the authors and, independently, Jacob Rasmussen. The discovery of this invariant grew naturally out of studying how a certain three-manifold invariant, Heegaard Floer homology,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

This paper continues the study of finite-type invariants of homology spheres studied by Ohtsuki and Garoufalidis. We apply the surgery classification of links to give a diagrammatic description, using ideas of Ohtsuki. This uses a…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Jerome Levine

Using the theory of involutive Heegaard Floer knot theory developed by Hendricks-Manolescu, we define two involutive analogs of the Upsilon knot concordance invariant of Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo. These involutive invariants are piecewise…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Matthew Hogancamp , Charles Livingston

Using the recent Gauss diagram formulas for Vassiliev invariants of Polyak-Viro-Fiedler and combining these formulas with the Bennequin inequality, we prove several inequalities for positive knots relating their Vassiliev invariants, genus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Stoimenow

We associate to every positive braid a braid monodromy group, generalizing the geometric monodromy group of an isolated plane curve singularity. If the closure of the braid is a knot, we identify the corresponding group with a framed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Livio Ferretti

We construct the invariant $F_K^{\mathfrak{sl}_3}\in\mathbb{Z}[q,q^{-1}][[x,y]]$ for any positive braid knot $K$, whose existence was conjectured by Park, building on earlier work of Gukov--Manolescu. The main step in our work extends a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Angus Gruen , Lara San Martín Suárez

This note contains two remarks about the application of the d-invariant in Heegaard Floer homology and Donaldson's diagonalization theorem to knot theory. The first is the equivalence of two obstructions they give to a 2-bridge knot being…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Joshua Evan Greene

For each integer $N\geq 2$, Mari\~no and Moore defined generalized Donaldson invariants by the methods of quantum field theory, and made predictions about the values of these invariants. Subsequently, Kronheimer gave a rigorous definition…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Aliakbar Daemi , Yi Xie

This paper considers the invariance of knot Floer homology in a purely algebraic setting, without reference to Heegaard diagrams, holomorphic disks, or grid diagrams. We show that (a small modification of) Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o's cube of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Allison Gilmore

We extend the definition of Khovanov-Lee homology to links in connected sums of $S^1 \times S^2$'s, and construct a Rasmussen-type invariant for null-homologous links in these manifolds. For certain links in $S^1 \times S^2$, we compute the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Ciprian Manolescu , Marco Marengon , Sucharit Sarkar , Michael Willis

For any $s \in [-\infty, 0] $ and oriented homology 3-sphere $Y$, we introduce a homology cobordism invariant $r_s(Y)\in (0,\infty]$. The values $\{r_s(Y)\}$ are included in the critical values of the $SU(2)$-Chern-Simons functional of $Y$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Yuta Nozaki , Kouki Sato , Masaki Taniguchi

Equivariant singular instanton Floer theory is a framework that associates to a knot in an integer homology 3-sphere a suite of homological invariants that are derived from circle-equivariant Morse-Floer theory of a Chern-Simons functional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Aliakbar Daemi , Christopher Scaduto

In the moduli space of polarized varieties the same unpolarized variety can occur multiple times However, for K3 surfaces, compact hyperk\"ahler manifolds, and abelian varieties the number is finite. This may be viewed as a consequence of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Daniel Huybrechts

A theory of finite type invariants for arbitrary compact oriented 3-manifolds is proposed, and illustrated through many examples arising from both classical and quantum topology. The theory is seen to be highly non-trivial even for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Tim D. Cochran , Paul Melvin