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Notions of Positivity and the Ozsváth-Szabó concordance invariant
, 2005
"... In this paper we examine the relationship between various types of positivity for knots and the concodance invariant τ discovered by Ozsváth and Szabó and independently by Rasmussen. The main result shows that, for fibered knots, τ characterizes strong quasipositivity. This is quantified by the st ..."
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In this paper we examine the relationship between various types of positivity for knots and the concodance invariant τ discovered by Ozsváth and Szabó and independently by Rasmussen. The main result shows that, for fibered knots, τ characterizes strong quasipositivity. This is quantified by the statement that for K fibered, τ(K) = g(K) if and only if K is strongly quasipositive. In addition, we survey existing results regarding τ and forms of positivity and highlight several consequences concerning the types of knots which are (strongly) (quasi) positive. For instance, we show that any knot known to admit a lens space surgery is strongly quasipositive and exhibit infinite families of knots which are not quasipositive.
LINK FLOER HOMOLOGY AND THE THURSTON NORM
, 2007
"... Abstract. We show that link Floer homology detects the Thurston norm of a link complement. As an application, we show that the Thurston polytope of an alternating link is dual to the Newton polytope of its multi-variable Alexander polynomial. To illustrate these techniques, we also compute the Thurs ..."
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Abstract. We show that link Floer homology detects the Thurston norm of a link complement. As an application, we show that the Thurston polytope of an alternating link is dual to the Newton polytope of its multi-variable Alexander polynomial. To illustrate these techniques, we also compute the Thurston polytopes of several specific link complements. 1.
Manifolds with small Heegaard Floer ranks
, 906
"... We show that the only irreducible three-manifold with positive first Betti number and Heegaard Floer homology of rank two is homeomorphic to zero-framed surgery on the trefoil. We classify links whose branched double cover gives rise to this manifold. Together with a spectral sequence from Khovanov ..."
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We show that the only irreducible three-manifold with positive first Betti number and Heegaard Floer homology of rank two is homeomorphic to zero-framed surgery on the trefoil. We classify links whose branched double cover gives rise to this manifold. Together with a spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to the Floer homology of the branched double cover, our results show that Khovanov homology detects the unknot if and only if it detects the two component unlink. 1
ON LEFT-ORDERABILITY AND DOUBLE BRANCHED COVERS OF KANENOBU’S KNOTS
"... Abstract. We show that the fundamental group of the double branched cover of an infinite family of homologically thin, non-quasi-alternating knots is not left-orderable, giving further support for a conjecture of Boyer, Gordon, and Watson that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space ..."
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Abstract. We show that the fundamental group of the double branched cover of an infinite family of homologically thin, non-quasi-alternating knots is not left-orderable, giving further support for a conjecture of Boyer, Gordon, and Watson that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. 1.
