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We define a new smooth concordance homomorphism based on the knot Floer complex and an associated concordance invariant, epsilon. As an application, we show that an infinite family of topologically slice knots are independent in the smooth…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Jennifer Hom

We define an invariant of Legendrian links in the double-point enhanced grid homology of a link, and prove that it obstructs decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard contact structure on $\mathbb R^3$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Ashton Lewis , Zachary Ojakli , Ina Petkova , Benjamin Shapiro

We define a new family of graph invariants, studying the topology of the moduli space of their geometric realizations in Euclidean spaces, using a limiting procedure reminiscent of Floer homology. Given a labeled graph $G$ on $n$ vertices…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Mara Belotti , Antonio Lerario , Andrew Newman

We establish a structural understanding of the involutive Heegaard Floer homology for all linear combinations of almost-rational (AR) plumbed three-manifolds. We use this to show that the Neumann-Siebenmann invariant is a homology cobordism…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Irving Dai , Matthew Stoffregen

We study the sutured Floer homology invariants of the sutured manifold obtained by cutting a knot complement along a Seifert surface, R. We show that these invariants are finer than the "top term" of the knot Floer homology, which they…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Matthew Hedden , Andras Juhasz , Sucharit Sarkar

Two link diagrams on compact surfaces are strongly equivalent if they are related by Reidemeister moves and orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the surfaces. They are stably equivalent if they are related by the two previous operations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Keiji Tagami

In this paper, we investigate the strength of chromatic symmetric homology as a graph invariant. Chromatic symmetric homology is a lift of the chromatic symmetric function for graphs to a homological setting, and its Frobenius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Alex Chandler , Radmila Sazdanovic , Salvatore Stella , Martha Yip

The fundamental group of the complement of a hyperplane arrangement in a complex vector space is an important topological invariant. The third rank of successive quotients in the lower central series of the fundamental group was called Falk…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Weili Guo , Michele Torielli

Using a Heegaard diagram for the pullback of a knot $K \subset S^3$ in its cyclic double branched cover $\Sigma_2(K)$, we give a combinatorial proof for the invariance of knot Floer homology over $\mathbb{Z}$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Fatemeh Douroudian

We defined a grid homology theory for spatial graphs. We showed that the skein exact sequence of singular knots can be extended to our grid homology for spatial graphs.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Zipei Zhuang

We construct geometrically two universal link invariants: universal ADO invariant and universal Jones invariant, as limits of invariants given by graded intersections in configuration spaces. More specifically, for a fixed level $\mathscr…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel

We introduce a new numerical invariant for special, reduced, alternating diagrams of oriented knots and links, defined in terms of the Laplacian matrix of the associated Tait graph. For a special alternating diagram, the Laplacian encodes…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Michal Jablonowski

We present recent advances in harmonic analysis on infinite graphs. Our approach combines combinatorial tools with new results from the theory of unbounded Hermitian operators in Hilbert space, geometry, boundary constructions, and spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Sergey Bezuglyi , Palle E. T. Jorgensen

Two geometric spaces are in the same topological class if they are related by certain geometric deformations. We propose machine learning methods that automate learning of topological invariance and apply it in the context of knot theory,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

We define a higher-dimensional analogue of symplectic Khovanov homology. Consider the standard Lefschetz fibration $p\colon W\to D\subset\mathbb{C}$ of a $2n$-dimensional Milnor fiber of the $A_{2\kappa-1}$ singularity. We represent a link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Tianyu Yuan

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 present a topological interpretation of knot and braid contact homology in degree zero, in terms of cords and skein relations. This interpretation allows us to extend the knot invariant to embedded graphs and higher-dimensional knots. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lenhard Ng

We describe an invariant of a contact 3-manifold with convex boundary as an element of Juh\'asz's sutured Floer homology. Our invariant generalizes the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology in the closed case, due to Ozsv\'ath and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-22 Ko Honda , William H. Kazez , Gordana Matic

We use the contact invariant defined in [2] to construct a new invariant of Legendrian knots in Kronheimer and Mrowka's monopole knot homology theory (KHM), following a prescription of Stipsicz and V\'ertesi. Our Legendrian invariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-12 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

Using the theory of perverse sheaves of vanishing cycles, we define a homological invariant of knots in three-manifolds, similar to the three-manifold invariant constructed by Abouzaid and the second author. We use spaces of SL(2,C) flat…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Laurent Côté , Ciprian Manolescu