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By studying the Heegaard Floer homology of the preimage of a knot K in S^3 inside its double branched cover, we develop simple obstructions to K having finite order in the classical smooth concordance group. As an application, we prove that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 J. Elisenda Grigsby , Daniel Ruberman , Saso Strle

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

If $K$ is a fibered knot in a closed, oriented $3$--manifold $Y$ with fiber $F$, and $\widehat{HFK}(Y,K,[F], g(F)-1;\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)$ has rank $r$, then the monodromy of $K$ is freely isotopic to a diffeomorphism with at most $r-1$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Yi Ni

Let $K, K'$ be ribbon knottings of $n$-spheres with $1$-handles in $S^{n+2}$, $n\geq 2$. We show that if the knot quandles of these knots are isomorphic, then the ribbon knottings are stably equivalent, in the sense of Nakanishi and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Blake Karl Winter

We prove that for hyperbolic fibered knots in any closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold the volume and genus are unrelated. As an application we answer a question of Hirose, Kalfagianni, and Kin about volumes of mapping tori that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-08 J. Robert Oakley

We prove that the map on knot Floer homology induced by a ribbon concordance is injective. As a consequence, we prove that the Seifert genus is monotonic under ribbon concordance. We also generalize a theorem of Gabai about the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Ian Zemke

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

We study 3-braid knots of finite smooth concordance order. A corollary of our main result is that a chiral 3-braid knot of finite concordance order is ribbon.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Paolo Lisca

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

We generalize the results of [AS], finding large classes of totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements, each the lift of a rigid 2-orbifold embedded in some hyperbolic 3-orbifold. In addition, we provide a…

We show that there exist hyperbolic knots in the 3-sphere such that the set of points of large injectivity radius in the complement take up the bulk of the volume. More precisely, given a finite volume hyperbolic manifold, for any bound R>0…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Autumn E. Kent , Jessica S. Purcell

In this article we examine the conjecture of Neumann and Reid that the only hyperbolic knots in the $3$-sphere which admit hidden symmetries are the figure-eight knot and the two dodecahedral knots. Knots whose complements cover hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Michel Boileau , Steven Boyer , Radu Cebanu , Genevieve S. Walsh

We prove that any complete hyperbolic 3--manifold with finitely generated fundamental group, with a single topological end, and which embeds into $\BS^3$ is the geometric limit of a sequence of hyperbolic knot complements in $\BS^3$. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jessica S. Purcell , Juan Souto

This paper gives a new obstruction for ribbon-move equivalence of 2-knots. Let $K$ and $K'$ be 2-knots. Let $K$ and $K'$ are ribbon-move equivalent. One corollary to our main theorem is as follows. A 2-dimensional fibered knot whose fiber…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Eiji Ogasa

We classify all finite group actions on knots in the 3-sphere. By geometrization, all such actions are conjugate to actions by isometries, and so we may use orthogonal representation theory to describe three cyclic and seven dihedral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Keegan Boyle , Nicholas Rouse , Ben Williams

Given a crossing in a planar diagram of a link in the three-sphere, we show that the knot Floer homologies of the link and its two resolutions at that crossing are related by an exact triangle. As a consequence, we deduce that for any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-14 Ciprian Manolescu

We define a knot to be $\gamma_0$-sharp if its Seifert genus is detected by the concordance invariant $\gamma_0$, which arises from the immersed curve formalism in bordered Heegaard Floer homology. We show that a connected sum of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jennifer Hom , JungHwan Park

We describe four hyperbolic knot complements in $\mathbb{S}^3$, each of which covers a prism orbifold: the quotient of $\mathbb{H}^3$ by the action of a discrete group generated by reflections in the faces of a polyhedron that has the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jason DeBlois , Arshia Gharagozlou , Neil R Hoffman

Any profinite isomorphism between two cusped finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds carries profinite isomorphisms between their Dehn fillings. With this observation, we prove that some cusped finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Xiaoyu Xu

An almost-fibered knot is a knot whose complement possesses a circular thin position in which there is one and only one weakly incompressible Seifert surface and one incompressible Seifert surface. Infinite examples of almost-fibered knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Mario Eudave-Muñoz , Araceli Guzmán-Tristán , Enrique Ramírez-Losada