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Sutured Heegaard diagrams for knots

Geometric Topology 2009-03-10 v2

Abstract

We define sutured Heegaard diagrams for null-homologous knots in 3-manifolds. These diagrams are useful for computing the knot Floer homology at the top filtration level. As an application, we give a formula for the knot Floer homology of a Murasugi sum. Our result echoes Gabai's earlier works. We also show that for so-called 'semifibred' satellite knots, the top filtration term of the knot Floer homology is isomorphic to the counterpart of the companion.

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@article{arxiv.math/0507440,
  title  = {Sutured Heegaard diagrams for knots},
  author = {Yi Ni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0507440},
  year   = {2009}
}

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This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 2 April 2006

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