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We prove that the knot Floer complex of a fibered knot detects whether the monodromy of its fibration is right-veering. In particular, this leads to a purely knot Floer-theoretic characterization of tight contact structures, by the work of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-07 John A. Baldwin , Yi Ni , Steven Sivek

The $\Delta$-unknotting number for a knot is defined as the minimum number of $\Delta$-moves needed to deform the knot into the trivial knot. We determine the $\Delta$-unknotting numbers for two-bridge knots of type $C(2\beta_1, 2\beta_2,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Kazumichi Nakamura

We define three different types of spanning surfaces for knots in thickened surfaces. We use these to introduce new Seifert matrices, Alexander-type polynomials, genera, and a signature invariant. One of these Alexander polynomials extends…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-18 András Juhász , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

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 the theory of perverse sheaves of vanishing cycles, we define a homological invariant of knots in three-manifolds, similar to the three-manifold invariant constructed by Abouzaid and the second author. We use spaces of SL(2,C) flat…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Laurent Côté , Ciprian Manolescu

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

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

Let $D$ be a knot diagram, and let ${\mathcal D}$ denote the set of diagrams that can be obtained from $D$ by crossing exchanges. If $D$ has $n$ crossings, then ${\mathcal D}$ consists of $2^n$ diagrams. A folklore argument shows that at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Carolina Medina , Jorge Ramírez-Alfonsín , Gelasio Salazar

We describe a new method for combinatorially computing the transverse invariant in knot Floer homology. Previous work of the authors and Stone used braid diagrams to combinatorially compute knot Floer homology of braid closures. However,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Peter Lambert-Cole , David Shea Vela-Vick

We define an obstruction for a knot to be Z[Z]-homology ribbon, and use this to provide restrictions on the integers that can occur as the triple linking numbers of derivative links of knots that are either homotopy ribbon or doubly slice.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-06 JungHwan Park , Mark Powell

We introduce a new numerical invariant of knots and links from the descending diagrams. It is considered to live between the unknotting number and the bridge number.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-24 Makoto Ozawa

Real Heegaard Floer homology is an invariant associated to a three-manifold equipped with an involution with nonempty fixed set of codimension two. We show that when the image of the fixed point set is nullhomologous in the quotient, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Eha Srivastava

We provide three 3-dimensional characterizations of the Z-slice genus of a knot, the minimal genus of a locally-flat surface in 4-space cobounding the knot whose complement has cyclic fundamental group: in terms of balanced algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Peter Feller , Lukas Lewark

We compute the Heegaard Floer homology of an oriented 3-manifold obtained by a negative rational surgery along an arbitrary algebraic knot.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andras Nemethi

In an earlier paper, we introduced a collection of graded Abelian groups $\HFKa(Y,K)$ associated to knots in a three-manifold. The aim of the present paper is to investigate these groups for several specific families of knots, including the…

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

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

In this paper, we study a special family of $(1,1)$ knots called constrained knots, which includes 2-bridge knots in the 3-sphere $S^3$ and simple knots in lens spaces. Constrained knots are parameterized by five integers and characterized…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Fan Ye

Given an equivariant knot $K$ of order $2$, we study the induced action of the symmetry on the knot Floer homology. We relate this action with the induced action of the symmetry on the Heegaard Floer homology of large surgeries on $K$. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Abhishek Mallick

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 study Heegaard Floer homology and various related invariants (such as the $h$-function) for two-component L-space links with linking number zero. For such links, we explicitly describe the relationship between the $h$-function, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Eugene Gorsky , Beibei Liu , Allison H. Moore