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We use Heegaard Floer homology to give obstructions to unknotting a knot with a single crossing change. These restrictions are particularly useful in the case where the knot in question is alternating. As an example, we use them to classify…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory (SHM). Our invariant can be viewed as a generalization of Kronheimer and Mrowka's contact invariant for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-16 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We introduce and explore the relation between knot invariants and quiver representation theory, which follows from the identification of quiver quantum mechanics in D-brane systems representing knots. We identify various structural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 Piotr Kucharski , Markus Reineke , Marko Stosic , Piotr Sułkowski

We study the space of L^2 harmonic forms on complete manifolds with metrics of fibred boundary or fibred cusp type. These metrics generalize the geometric structures at infinity of several different well-known classes of metrics, including…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tamas Hausel , Eugenie Hunsicker , Rafe Mazzeo

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 define invariants of null--homologous Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3--manifolds. The invariants are determined by elements of the knot Floer homology of the underlying smooth knot. We compute these invariants, and show that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Paolo Lisca , Peter Ozsváth , András I. Stipsicz , Zoltán Szabó

Using the relation between Khovanov homology and the Heegaard Floer homology of branched double covers, we show how Khovanov homology can be used to establish tightness of branched double covers of certain transverse knots. We give examples…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-19 Olga Plamenevskaya

We construct many examples of non-slice knots in 3-space that cannot be distinguished from slice knots by previously known invariants. Using Whitney towers in place of embedded disks, we define a geometric filtration of the 3-dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tim D. Cochran , Kent E. Orr , Peter Teichner

We use moduli spaces of instantons and Chern-Simons invariants of flat connections to prove that the Whitehead doubles of (2,2^n-1) torus knots are independent in the smooth knot concordance group; that is, they freely generate a subgroup…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-10-05 Matthew Hedden , Paul Kirk

Homologically fibered knots are knots whose exteriors satisfy the same homological conditions as fibered knots. In our previous paper, we observed that for such a knot, higher-order Alexander invariants defined by Cochran, Harvey and Friedl…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-31 Hiroshi Goda , Takuya Sakasai

We study the homology concordance group of knots in integer homology three-spheres which bound integer homology four-balls. Using knot Floer homology, we construct an infinite number of $\mathbb{Z}$-valued, linearly independent homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Irving Dai , Jennifer Hom , Matthew Stoffregen , Linh Truong

Given an equivariant knot $K$ of order $2$, we study the induced action of the symmetry on the knot Floer homology. We relate this action with the induced action of the symmetry on the Heegaard Floer homology of large surgeries on $K$. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Abhishek Mallick

Continuing our previous work, we effectively compute connected Heegaard Floer homologies of two families of Brieskorn spheres realized as the boundaries of almost simple linear graphs. Using Floer theoretic invariants of Dai, Hom,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Çağrı Karakurt , Oğuz Şavk

We establish a surgery exact triangle for involutive Heegaard Floer homology by using a doubling model of the involution. We use this exact triangle to give an involutive version of Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o's mapping cone formula for knot surgery.…

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

In this paper we study the knot Floer homology invariants of the twisted and untwisted Whitehead doubles of an arbitrary knot K. We present a formula for the filtered chain homotopy type of HFK(D(+,K,t)) in terms of the invariants for K,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Matthew Hedden

Kronheimer and Mrowka introduced a new knot invariant, called $s^\sharp$, which is a gauge theoretic analogue of Rasmussen's $s$ invariant. In this article, we compute Kronheimer and Mrowka's invariant for some classes of knots, including…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Sherry Gong

For any three-manifold presented as surgery on a framed link (L,\Lambda) in an integral homology sphere, Manolescu and Ozsv\'ath construct a hypercube of chain complexes whose homology calculates the Heegaard Floer homology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Tye Lidman

We study the group of rational concordance classes of codimension two knots in rational homology spheres. We give a full calculation of its algebraic theory by developing a complete set of new invariants. For computation, we relate these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jae Choon Cha

We give a diagrammatic characterization of the $(1,1)$ knots in the three-sphere and lens spaces which admit large Dehn surgeries to manifolds with Heegaard Floer homology of next-to-minimal rank. This is inspired by a corresponding result…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Fraser Binns , Hugo Zhou

We construct two knot invariants. The first knot invariant is a sum constructed using linking numbers. The second is an invariant of flat knots and is a formal sum of flat knots obtained by smoothing pairs of crossings. This invariant can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 H. A. Dye