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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

In this paper we investigate the question of when different surgeries on a knot can produce identical manifolds. We show that given a knot in a homology sphere, unless the knot is quite special, there is a bound on the number of slopes that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Fyodor Gainullin

Given a connected cobordism between two knots in the 3-sphere, our main result is an inequality involving torsion orders of the knot Floer homology of the knots, and the number of local maxima and the genus of the cobordism. This has…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-04 András Juhász , Maggie Miller , Ian Zemke

We prove that 0 is a characterizing slope for infinitely many knots, namely the genus-1 knots whose knot Floer homology is 2-dimensional in the top Alexander grading, which we classified in recent work and which include all $(-3,3,2n+1)$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

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

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Eaman Eftekhary

We give an obstruction to unknotting a knot by adding a twisted band, derived from Heegaard Floer homology.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Yuanyuan Bao

We consider an analogue of well-known Casson knot invariant for knotoids. We start with a direct analogue of the classical construction which gives two different integer-valued knotoid invariants and then focus on its homology extension.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Vladimir Tarkaev

By examining the homology groups of a 4-manifold associated to an integral surgery on a knot $K$ in a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ yielding a rational homology 3-sphere $Y^*$ with surgery dual knot $K^*$, we show that the subgroups…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Jacob Caudell

We apply the theory of "peculiar modules" for the Floer homology of 4-ended tangles developed by Zibrowius (specifically, the immersed curve interpretation of the tangle invariants) to compute the Knot Floer Homology ($\widehat{HFK}$) of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Konstantinos Varvarezos

We explore a somewhat unexpected connection between knot Floer homology and shellable posets, via grid diagrams. Given a grid presentation of a knot K inside S^3, we define a poset which has an associated chain complex whose homology is the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Sucharit Sarkar

Using bordered Floer theory, we give a combinatorial construction and proof of invariance for the hat version of Heegaard Floer homology. As a part of the proof, we also establish combinatorially the invariance of the linear-categorical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Bohua Zhan

In this paper we study the knot Floer homology of a subfamily of twisted $(p, q)$ torus knots where $q \equiv\pm1$ (mod $p$). Specifically, we classify the knots in this subfamily that admit L-space surgeries. To do calculations, we use the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Faramarz Vafaee

We give a precise description of splicing formulas from a previous paper in terms of knot Floer complex associated with a knot in homology sphere.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Eaman Eftekhary

We classify genus-two L-space knots in the Poincar\'e homology sphere. This leads to the second knot Floer homology detection result for a knot of genus at least two, and the first such result outside of $S^3$. The argument uses the theory…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Braeden Reinoso

In 2005 Dunfield, Gukov and Rasmussen conjectured an existence of the spectral sequence from the reduced triply graded Khovanov-Rozansky homology of a knot to its knot Floer homology defined by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o. The main result of this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Anna Beliakova , Krzysztof K. Putyra , Louis-Hadrien Robert , Emmanuel Wagner

In a previous paper, V\'ertesi and the first author used grid-like Heegaard diagrams to define tangle Floer homology, which associates to a tangle $T$ a differential graded bimodule $\widetilde{\mathrm{CT}} (T)$. If $L$ is obtained by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Ina Petkova , C. -M. Michael Wong

We have developed a reinforcement learning agent that often finds a minimal sequence of unknotting crossing changes for a knot diagram with up to 200 crossings, hence giving an upper bound on the unknotting number. We have used this to…

We construct knot invariants categorifying the quantum knot variants for all representations of quantum groups. We show that these invariants coincide with previous invariants defined by Khovanov for sl_2 and sl_3 and by Mazorchuk-Stroppel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ben Webster

For any knot $K$ which bounds non-orientable and null-homologous surfaces $F$ in punctured $n\mathbb{C}P^2$, we construct a lower bound of the first Betti number of $F$ which consists of the signature of $K$ and the Heegaard Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Kouki Sato , Motoo Tange

The Burau representation of braid groups and knot Floer homology share a link to the Fox calculus. We make this connection explicit, with the following outcome: if $B$ is the full Burau matrix of any braid, and $A$ is any square submatrix…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Joe Boninger