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Inspired by the $S^n$ colored version of Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homology, we define a colored version of knot Floer homology by studying the colimit of a directed system of link Floer homology with infinite full twists.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Akram Alishahi , Eugene Gorsky , Beibei Liu

We give a combinatorial treatment of transverse homology, a new invariant of transverse knots that is an extension of knot contact homology. The theory comes in several flavors, including one that is an invariant of topological knots and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-08 Lenhard Ng

Examples of knots and links distinguished by the total rank of their Khovanov homology but sharing the same two-fold branched cover are given. As a result, Khovanov homology does not yield an invariant of two-fold branched covers.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Liam Watson

It was recently proved by several authors that ribbon concordances induce injective maps in knot Floer homology, Khovanov homology, and the Heegaard Floer homology of the branched double cover. We give a simple proof of a similar statement…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Sungkyung Kang

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 introduce an invariant of tangles in Khovanov homology by considering a natural inverse system of Khovanov homology groups. As application, we derive an invariant of strongly invertible knots; this invariant takes the form of a graded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Liam Watson

These are the lecture notes for a course on Heegaard Floer homology held at PCMI in Summer 2019. We describe Heegaard diagrams, Heegaard Floer homology, knot Floer homology, and the relationship between the knot and 3-manifold invariants.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Jennifer Hom

We prove that the rank of knot Floer homology detects the Hopf links, and generalize this result further to classify the links of the second smallest knot Floer homology. We also prove a knot Floer homology analog of arXiv:1910.04246v1…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Juhyun Kim

We prove a conjecture of Migdail and Wehrli regarding the odd Khovanov cobordism maps associated to knotted spheres. Our key tool is Daemi's plane Floer homology, which we use in place of a Lee deformation. Continuing the analogy with Lee…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dean Spyropoulos , Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi , Chen Zhang

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots discovered by the authors and, independently, Jacob Rasmussen. The discovery of this invariant grew naturally out of studying how a certain three-manifold invariant, Heegaard Floer homology,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

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 give a recipe for constructing families of distinct knots that have identical Khovanov homology and give examples of pairs of prime knots, as well as infinite families, with this property.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Liam Watson

We prove that the knot Floer homology of a fibered knot is nontrivial in its next-to-top Alexander grading. Immediate applications include new proofs of Krcatovich's result that knots with $L$-space surgeries are prime and Hedden and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 John A. Baldwin , David Shea Vela-Vick

We prove that a knot is the unknot if and only if its reduced Khovanov cohomology has rank 1. The proof has two steps. We show first that there is a spectral sequence beginning with the reduced Khovanov cohomology and abutting to a knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-25 P. B. Kronheimer , T. S. Mrowka

This article is an exposition of a body of existing results, together with an announcement of recent results. We discuss a theory of polytopes associated to bipartite graphs and trinities, developed by K\'alm\'an, Postnikov and others. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Daniel V. Mathews

In an earlier paper, we introduced a knot invariant for a null-homologous knot K in an oriented three-manifold Y, which is closely related to the Heegaard Floer homology of Y. In this paper we investigate some properties of these knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

In these notes, I will sketch a new approach to Khovanov homology of knots and links based on counting the solutions of certain elliptic partial differential equations in four and five dimensions. The equations are formulated on four and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Edward Witten

We construct $S^r$-colored knot Floer homologies and prove that they satisfy categorified recurrence relations. The associated Euler characteristic implies $q$-holonomicity of the corresponding sequence of colored Alexander polynomials, in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Benjamin Cooper , Robert Deyeso

This paper defines versions of the Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology by using several maps from the set of Gauss diagrams to its variant. Through calculation of some examples, this paper also shows that these versions behave…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Noboru Ito

We study homology groups of posets with functor coefficients and apply our results to give a novel approach to study Khovanov homology of knots and related homology theories.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Nicolás Cianci , Miguel Ottina