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Given a grid diagram for a knot or link K in $S^3$, we construct a filtered spectrum whose homology is the knot Floer homology of K. We conjecture that the filtered homotopy type of the spectrum is an invariant of K. Our construction does…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ciprian Manolescu , Sucharit Sarkar

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

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

Similar to knots in S^3, any knot in a lens space has a grid diagram from which one can combinatorially compute all of its knot Floer homology invariants. We give an explicit description of the generators, differentials, and rational Maslov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-05 Kenneth L. Baker , J. Elisenda Grigsby , Matthew Hedden

We define the longitude Floer homology of a knot K in S^3 and show that it is a topological invariant of K. Some basic properties of these homology groups are derived. In particular, we show that they distinguish the genus of K. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Eaman Eftekhary

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 exhibit the first example of a knot in the three-sphere with a pair of minimal genus Seifert surfaces that can be distinguished using the sutured Floer homology of their complementary manifolds together with the Spin^c-grading. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Irida Altman

We review some recent results in knot concordance and homology cobordism. The proofs rely on various forms of Heegaard Floer homology. We also discuss related open problems.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Jennifer Hom

We describe a new method for computing the $UV = 0$ knot Floer complex of a satellite knot given the $UV = 0$ knot Floer complex for the companion and a doubly pointed bordered Heegaard diagram for the pattern, showing that the complex for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Wenzhao Chen , Jonathan Hanselman

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots in the three-sphere for which the Euler characteristic is the Alexander-Conway polynomial of the knot. The aim of this paper is to study this homology for a class of satellite knots, so as to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Yuanyuan Bao

We describe a simple formula for computing the Heegaard Floer multicurve invariant of double tangles from the Heegaard Floer multicurve invariant of knot complements. A comparison with a similar multicurve invariant for Conway tangles in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Claudius Zibrowius

Given a knot presented as a braid closure, we construct a unified intersection model for the Alexander and Jones polynomials of the knot via what we call quantum Heegaard diagrams. These diagrams are obtained by stabilising the disc model…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel , András Juhász

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

Using the combinatorial approach to knot Floer homology, we define an invariant for Legendrian knots in the three-sphere, which takes values in link Floer homology. This invariant can be used to also construct an invariant of transverse…

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

In a previous paper, Sarkar and the third author gave a combinatorial description of the hat version of Heegaard Floer homology for three-manifolds. Given a cobordism between two connected three-manifolds, there is an induced map between…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Robert Lipshitz , Ciprian Manolescu , Jiajun Wang

In this note we use Heegaard Floer homology to study smooth cobordisms of algebraic knots and complex deformations of cusp singularities of curves. The main tool will be the concordance invariant $\nu^+$: we study its behaviour with respect…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 József Bodnár , Daniele Celoria , Marco Golla

We show that every 3--manifold admits a Heegaard diagram in which a truncated version of Heegaard Floer homology (when the holomorpic disks pass through the basepoints at most once) can be computed combinatorially.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-24 Peter Ozsvath , Andras Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

In this paper, we introduce a sequence of invariants of a knot K in S^3: the knot Floer homology groups of the preimage of K in the m-fold cyclic branched cover over K. We exhibit the knot Floer homology in the m-fold branched cover as the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-23 J Elisenda Grigsby

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 give combinatorial descriptions of the Heegaard Floer homology groups for arbitrary three-manifolds (with coefficients in Z/2). The descriptions are based on presenting the three-manifold as an integer surgery on a link in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath , Dylan Thurston