An untwisted cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology (Q407397)

Heegaard Floer homology theory, which can be viewed as a vastly improved version of the Alexander polynomial, has led to major advances in knot theory. The major progress has been made when the computation of the invariants, defined by using counts of holomorphic curves, was reduced to combinatorics. In [J. Topol. 2, No. 4, 865--910 (2009; Zbl 1203.57012)], \textit{P. Ozsváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó} gave a combinatorial description of knot Floer homology based on a cube of resolutions, which uses maps with twisted coefficients. For a braid diagram for a knot, an iteration of the triangle produces a spectral sequence, which is shown to collapse at the \(E_2\) page that is then described combinatorially. There are two variants or the spectral sequence, corresponding to the two variants of knot Floer homology \(\widehat{\text{HFK}}\) whose graded Euler characteristic is the Alexander polynomial \(\Delta_K(T)\) and \(\text{HFK}^-\) whose graded Euler characteristic is \(\Delta_K(T)/(1-T)\). If the maps in the spectral sequences were untwisted, the results would look very similar to the \(\text{HOMFLY-PT}\) homology of Khovanov and Rozansky. For \(\mathbb F=\mathbb Z/2\,\mathbb Z\) Ozsváth and Z.~Szabó built a spectral sequence using modules over the base ring \({\mathcal R}\otimes_{\mathbb Z}\mathbb F[t^{-1},t]\), where \(\mathbb F[t^{-1},t]\) is the field of half-infinite Laurent power series. The purpose of this paper is to give evidence for a precise conjecture connecting the untwisted spectral sequences and \(\text{HOMFLY-PT}\) homology. The author studies Ozsváth and Z.~Szabó's problems when \(t=1\).