The Symplectic Floer Homology of Composite Knots
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چکیده
We develop a method of calculation for the symplectic Floer homology of composite knots. The symplectic Floer homology of knots defined in [15] naturally admits an integer graded lifting, and it formulates a filtration and induced spectral sequence. Such a spectral sequence converges to the symplectic homology of knots in [15]. We show that there is another spectral sequence which converges to the Z-graded symplectic Floer homology for composite knots represented by braids.
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