Sutured Heegaard diagrams for knots (Q2492039)

Recently, \textit{P. Ozsváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó} in [Adv. Math. 186, No.1, 58-116 (2004; Zbl 1062.57019)] introduced an important tool to study knots, called knot Floer homology. The top filtration term of the knot Floer homology contains a lot of information about the knot. The authors of the paper under review introduce sutured Heegaard diagrams for nullhomologous knots in a 3-manifold and use these to compute the top filtration term of knot Floer homology. The first one of two main results claimed: If \(K\) is the Murasugi sum of two knots \(K_1\), \(K_2\) in \(S^3\), and \(g_1\), \(g_2\), \(g\) denote their Seifert genera, respectively, then there is an isomorphism of vector spaces \[ \widehat{HFK}(K,g;\mathbb{F})\cong\widehat{HFK}(K_1,g_1;\mathbb{F})\otimes \widehat{HFK}(K_2,g_2;\mathbb{F}) \] for any field \(\mathbb{F}\). The second main result is: For a knot \(K\), if \(K^*\) is its semifibered satellite knot, and \(g\) and \(g^*\) denote their genera, then there is an isomorphism of abelian groups \[ \widehat{HFK}(K^*,g^*)\cong\widehat{HFK}(K,g). \]