Homological actions on sutured Floer homology

Homological actions on sutured Floer homology

We define the action of the homology group H1(M,∂M) on the sutured Floer homology SFH(M,γ). It turns out that the contact invariant EH(M,γ, ξ) is usually sent to zero by this action. This fact allows us to refine an earlier result proved by Ghiggini and the author. As a corollary, we classify knots in #(S × S) which have simple knot Floer homology groups: They are essentially the Borromean knots.

The sutured Floer homology polytope

Using sutured Floer homology (in short SFH) I will define a polytope inside the second relative cohomology group of a sutured manifold. This is a generalization of the dual Thurston norm polytope of a link-complement studied by Ozsvath and Szabo using link Floer homology. The polytope is maximal dimensional under certain conditions. Moreover, surface decompositions correspond to the faces of th...

The Decategorification of Sutured Floer Homology

We define a torsion invariant for balanced sutured manifolds and show that it agrees with the Euler characteristic of sutured Floer homology. The torsion is easily computed and shares many properties of the usual Alexander polynomial.

Khovanov Homology, Sutured Floer Homology, and Annular Links J. Elisenda Grigsby and Stephan Wehrli

In [28], Lawrence Roberts, extending the work of Ozsváth and Szabó in [23], showed how to associate to a link, L, in the complement of a fixed unknot, B ⊂ S, a spectral sequence whose E term is the Khovanov homology of a link in a thickened annulus defined in [2], and whose E term is the knot Floer homology of the preimage of B inside the double-branched cover of L. In [6], we extended [23] in ...

Lectures on Floer homology