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We define an invariant of three-manifolds with an involution with non-empty fixed point set of codimension $2$; in particular, this applies to double branched covers over knots. Our construction gives the Heegaard Floer analogue of Li's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Gary Guth , Ciprian Manolescu

We say that a given knot $J\subset S^3$ is detected by its knot Floer homology and $A$-polynomial if whenever a knot $K\subset S^3$ has the same knot Floer homology and the same $A$-polynomial as $J$, then $K=J$. In this paper we show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Yi Ni , Xingru Zhang

Using the conjugation symmetry on Heegaard Floer complexes, we define a three-manifold invariant called involutive Heegaard Floer homology, which is meant to correspond to $\mathbb{Z}_4$-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology. Further,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Kristen Hendricks , Ciprian Manolescu

We prove an integral surgery formula for framed instanton homology $I^\sharp(Y_m(K))$ for any knot $K$ in a $3$-manifold $Y$ with $[K]=0\in H_1(Y;\mathbb{Q})$ and $m\neq 0$. Though the statement is similar to Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o's integral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Zhenkun Li , Fan Ye

We give new obstructions to the module structures arising in Heegaard Floer homology. As a corollary, we characterize the possible modules arising as the Heegaard Floer homology of an integer homology sphere with one-dimensional reduced…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Jonathan Hanselman , Cagatay Kutluhan , Tye Lidman

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

We show how one can define novel gauge-theoretic Floer homologies of four, three, and two-manifolds from the physics of a certain topologically-twisted 5d ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theory via its supersymmetric quantum mechanics interpretation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Arif Er , Zhi-Cong Ong , Meng-Chwan Tan

We show that all versions of Heegaard Floer homology, link Floer homology, and sutured Floer homology are natural. That is, they assign concrete groups to each based 3-manifold, based link, and balanced sutured manifold, respectively.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-31 András Juhász , Dylan P. Thurston , Ian Zemke

We follow the same technics we used before in \cite{AZ} of extending knot Floer homology to embedded graphs in a 3-manifold, by using the Kauffman topological invariant of embedded graphs by associating family of links and knots to a such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry

In arXiv:1611.09927, we constructed a well-defined Lagrangian Floer invariant for any closed, oriented $3$-manifold $Y$ via the symplectic geometry of so-called traceless $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-character varieties. This invariant,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Henry T. Horton

We prove first-order naturality of involutive Heegaard Floer homology, and furthermore construct well-defined maps on involutive Heegaard Floer homology associated to cobordisms between three-manifolds. We also prove analogous naturality…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Kristen Hendricks , Jennifer Hom , Matthew Stoffregen , Ian Zemke

For a given smooth $2$-knot in $S^4$, we relate the existence of a smooth Seifert hypersurface of a certain class to the existence of irreducible $ SU(2)$-representations of its knot group. For example, we see that any smooth $2$-knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Masaki Taniguchi

We address primary decomposition conjectures for knot concordance groups, which predict direct sum decompositions into primary parts. We show that the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots has a large subgroup for which the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Jae Choon Cha

Ozsvath and Szabo conjectured that knot Floer homology detects fibred knots. We propose a strategy to approach this conjecture based on Gabai's theory of sutured manifold decomposition and contact topology. We implement this strategy for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ghiggini

We establish a framework for extending invariants of sutured manifolds to invariants of pairs of sutured manifolds who differ by attaching a basic slice along a torus boundary component. In the particular case of (bordered-)sutured Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Thomas Hockenhull

Using the covering involution on the double branched cover of the three-sphere branched along a knot, and adapting ideas of Hendricks-Manolescu and Hendricks-Hom-Lidman, we define new knot invariants and apply them to deduce novel linear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Antonio Alfieri , Sungkyung Kang , Andras I. Stipsicz

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

The $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomlogy $\widehat{HF}_{\mathbb{Z}_{2}}(\Sigma(K))$ of a knot $K$ in $S^{3}$, constructed by Hendricks, Lipshitz, and Sarkar, is an isotopy invariant which is defined using bridge diagrams of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Sungkyung Kang

This is the first part of an article in two parts, which builds the foundation of a Floer-theoretic invariant, (I_F). (See math.DG/0505013 for part II). The Floer homology can be trivial in many variants of the Floer theory; it is therefore…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Jen Lee

Given a band sum of a split two-component link along a nontrivial band, we obtain a family of knots indexed by the integers by adding any number of full twists to the band. We show that the knots in this family have the same Heegaard knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Joshua Wang