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We apply knot Floer homology to exhibit an infinite family of transversely nonsimple prime knots starting with $10_{132}$. We also discuss the combinatorial relationship between grid diagrams, braids, and Legendrian and transverse knots in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Tirasan Khandhawit , Lenhard Ng

Kakimizu complex of a knot is a flag simplicial complex whose vertices correspond to minimal genus Seifert surfaces and edges to disjoint pairs of such surfaces. We discuss a general setting in which one can define a similar complex. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Piotr Przytycki , Jennifer Schultens

Knot Floer homology is a knot invariant defined using holomorphic curves. In more recent work, taking cues from bordered Floer homology,the authors described another knot invariant, called "bordered knot Floer homology", which has an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Zoltan Szabo , Peter Ozsvath

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

We develop and implement an algorithm that computes the full knot Floer complex of knots of thickness one. As an application, by extending this algorithm to certain knots of thickness two, we show that all but finitely many non-integral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Patricia Sorya

Using derived categories of equivariant coherent sheaves we construct a knot homology theory which categorifies the quantum sl(m) knot polynomial. Our knot homology naturally satisfies the categorified MOY relations and is conjecturally…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Sabin Cautis , Joel Kamnitzer

For a ribbon knot, it is a folk conjecture that the rank of its knot Floer homology must be 1 modulo 8, and another folk conjecture says the same about reduced Khovanov homology. We give the first counter-examples to both of these folk…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Nathan M. Dunfield , Sherry Gong , Thomas Hockenhull , Marco Marengon , Michael Willis

The concordance genus of a knot K is the minimum three-genus among all knots concordant to K. For prime knots of 10 or fewer crossings there have been three knots for which the concordance genus was unknown. Those three cases are now…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Charles Livingston

The complete classification of (3,3)-nets and of (3,4)-nets with only double and triple points is given. Up to lattice isomorphism, there are exactly 3 effective possibilities in each case, and some of these provide new examples of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-26 Alexandru Dimca , Denis Ibadula , Daniela Anca Macinic

A companion paper to "On knot Floer homology in branched double covers" applied to braided branched loci. We reprove the main result of that paper concerning alternating branched loci when projected to an annulus, without using Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-07 Lawrence P. Roberts

We introduce a framework for defining concordance invariants of knots using equivariant singular instanton Floer theory with Chern-Simons filtration. It is demonstrated that many of the concordance invariants defined using instantons in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Aliakbar Daemi , Hayato Imori , Kouki Sato , Christopher Scaduto , Masaki Taniguchi

Using an argument of Baldwin--Hu--Sivek, we prove that if $K$ is a hyperbolic fibered knot with fiber $F$ in a closed, oriented $3$--manifold $Y$, and $\widehat{HFK}(Y,K,[F], g(F)-1)$ has rank $1$, then the monodromy of $K$ is freely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Yi Ni

The (untwisted) oriented cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology assigns a complex $C_{F}(S)$ to a singular resolution $S$ of a knot $K$. Manolescu conjectured that when $S$ is in braid position, the homology $H_{*}(C_{F}(S))$ is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Nathan Dowlin

We use bordered Floer homology to give a formula for the knot Floer homology of any (p, pn+1)-cable of a thin knot K in terms of Delta_K(t), tau(K), p, and n. We also give a formula for the Ozsvath-Szabo concordance invariant tau(K_{p,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Ina Petkova

We define Floer homology theories for oriented, singular knots in S^3 and show that one of these theories can be defined combinatorially for planar singular knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Peter Ozsvath , Andras I. Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We present a braid-theoretic approach to combinatorially computing knot Floer homology. To a knot or link K, which is braided about the standard disk open book decomposition for (S^3,\xi_std), we associate a corresponding multi-pointed nice…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Peter Lambert-Cole , Michaela Stone , David Shea Vela-Vick

We review the construction of Heegaard Floer homology for closed three-manifolds and also for knots and links in the three-sphere. We also discuss three applications of this invariant to knot theory: studying the Thurston norm of a link…

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

We construct families of trivial $2$-knots $K_i$ in $\mathbb{R}^4$ such that the maximal complexity of $2$-knots in any isotopy connecting $K_i$ with the standard unknot grows faster than a tower of exponentials of any fixed height of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Boris Lishak , Alexander Nabutovsky

It is well-known that a knot in a contact manifold $(M,C)$ transverse to a trivialized contact structure possesses the natural framing given by the first of the trivialization vectors along the knot. If the Euler class $e_C\in H^2(M)$ of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Chernov

In this note, we give a short proof that knot Floer thickness is a lower bound on the dealternating number of a knot. The result is originally due to work of Abe and Kishimoto, Lowrance, and Turaev. Our proof is a modification of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Linh Truong