Equivalence of two diagram representations of links in lens spaces and essential invariants (Q313440)

The authors study some knot conjectures that can be rephrased in terms of links in lens spaces. The lens spaces are quite well understood among three manifolds. They are definite as finite cyclic quotients of \(S^3\), but they admit many different (combinatorial) representations that have been extended to represent also the links contained inside them. The diagram representation has been introduced in [\textit{A. Cattabriga} et al., Topology Appl. 160, No. 2, 430--442 (2013; Zbl 1263.57004)] and grid diagrams have been introduced in [\textit{K. Baker} et al., Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Article ID rnn024, 39 p. (2008; Zbl 1168.57009) and \textit{C. R. Cornwell}, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 21, No. 6, 1250060, 31 p. (2012; Zbl 1251.57014)]. The authors are interested in shifting from one form of diagram to the other. The first diagram introduced in [Cattabriga et al., loc. cit.] is used to describe the generalizations of links in lens spaces then, exploiting the combinatorial version of the link Floer homology the authors obtain in [Baker et al., loc. cit.] a HOMFLY-PT invariant. First, the authors recall the definition of disk diagram and the corresponding Reidemeister-type moves. Then they resume the definition of grid diagram and find how to shift from a disk diagram of a given link \(L\) in \(L(p,q)\) to a grid diagram of the same link. They discuss also the correspondence between Reidemeister-type moves on the disk diagram and equivalence moves on the grid diagram. Next they study the HOMFLY-PT invariant of links in lens spaces. The behaviour of this invariant under the change of orientation of the link is studied and the authors compute it on some examples in order to discuss whether this invariant is essential. Next the authors study link Floer homology. They generalize the combinatorial definition of link Floer homology developed earlier for links in \(S^3\) and for knots in lens spaces to the case of links in lens spaces and study its behaviour under change of orientation. They find examples of links with the same covering, distinguished by this invariant.