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The first and third authors recently proved that for each knot $K\subset S^3$ there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to $K$. In this paper, we remove the hyperbolic constraint, proving that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-25 John A. Baldwin , Jonathan Hanselman , Steven Sivek

The ratio of volume to crossing number of a hyperbolic knot is known to be bounded above by the volume of a regular ideal octahedron, and a similar bound is conjectured for the knot determinant per crossing. We investigate a natural…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Abhijit Champanerkar , Ilya Kofman , Jessica S. Purcell

The Vol-Det Conjecture, formulated by Champanerkar, Kofman and Purcell, states that there exists a specific inequality connecting the hyperbolic volume of an alternating link and its determinant. Among the classes of links for which this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Andrei Egorov , Andrei Vesnin

Let L be a link in an thickened annulus. We specify the embedding of this annulus in the three sphere, and consider its complement thought of as the axis to L. In the right circumstances this axis lifts to a null-homologous knot in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lawrence P. Roberts

In this thesis, we prove several results concerning field-theoretic invariants of knots and 3-manifolds. In Chapter 2, for any knot $K$ in a closed, oriented 3-manifold $M$, we use $SU(2)$ representation spaces and the Lagrangian field…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Sam Lewallen

We show that a decorated knot concordance $C$ from $K$ to $K'$ induces a homomorphism $F_C$ on knot Floer homology that preserves the Alexander and Maslov gradings. Furthermore, it induces a morphism of the spectral sequences to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Andras Juhasz , Marco Marengon

This is a survey article about knot Floer homology. We present three constructions of this invariant: the original one using holomorphic disks, a combinatorial description using grid diagrams, and a combinatorial description in terms of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Ciprian Manolescu

An important conjecture in knot theory relates the large-$N$, double scaling limit of the colored Jones polynomial $J_{K,N}(q)$ of a knot $K$ to the hyperbolic volume of the knot complement, $\text{Vol}(K)$. A less studied question is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

Given any knot K in the 3-sphere, we prove that there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to K. It follows that every fibered knot in the 3-sphere has only finitely many hyperbolic predecessors under…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-03 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We show that the hyperbolic volume of a hyperbolic knot is a quandle cocycle invariant. Further we show that it completely determines invertibility and positive/negative amphicheirality of hyperbolic knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-03 Ayumu Inoue

We prove that if $P$ is a $(1,1)$-pattern knot, the two inequalities $\dim \widehat{HFK} (P(K)) \geqslant \dim \widehat{HFK} (P(U))$ and $\dim \widehat{HFK} (P(K)) \geqslant \dim \widehat{HFK} (K)$ hold for the unknot $U\subset S^3$ and any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Weizhe Shen

We develop purely algebraic methods for proving that a knot is prime. Our approach uses the Heegaard Floer polynomial in conjunction with classical knot-theoretic methods: cyclic, dihedral, and metacyclic covering spaces. The theory of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Samantha Allen , Charles Livingston

We define a Floer-homology invariant for knots in an oriented three-manifold, closely related to the holomorphic disk Floer homologies for three-manifolds defined in an earlier paper. We set up basic properties of these invariants,…

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

We show that the torsion order $\mathrm{Ord}(K)$ of a knot $K$ in knot Floer homology gives a lower bound on the minimum number $n$ such that an oriented $(n+1)$-tangle replacement unknots $K$. This generalizes earlier results by Alishahi…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Eaman Eftekhary

This paper is devoted to the study of the knot Floer homology groups HFK(S^3,K_{2,n}), where K_{2,n} denotes the (2,n) cable of an arbitrary knot, K. It is shown that for sufficiently large |n|, the Floer homology of the cabled knot depends…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Matthew Hedden

We prove that, up to local equivalences, a suitable truncation of the involutive knot Floer homology of a knot in $S^3$ and the involutive bordered Heegaard Floer theory of its complement determine each other. In particular, given two knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Sungkyung Kang

We show that if K is a non-trivial knot inside a homology sphere X, the rank of the knot Floer homology group associated with K is strictly bigger than the rank of the Heegaard Floer homology group associated with X.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Eaman Eftekhary

A slope $p/q$ is a characterising slope for a knot $K$ in $S^3$ if the oriented homeomorphism type of $p/q$-surgery on $K$ determines $K$ uniquely. We show that when $K$ is a hyperbolic knot its set of characterising slopes contains all but…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Duncan McCoy

We prove for the first time that knot Floer homology and Khovanov homology can detect non-fibered knots, and that HOMFLY homology detects infinitely many such knots; these theories were previously known to detect a mere six knots, all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-29 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We give an algorithm for computing the knot Floer homology of a $ (1,1) $ knot from a particular presentation of its fundamental group.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Matthew Hedden , Jiajun Wang , Xiliu Yang