Link Floer homology categorifies the Conway function

DOI10.1017/S0013091515000528MaRDI QIDQ2976315zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mounir Benheddi, David Cimasoni

Publication date 28 April 2017

Published in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3517

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialConway functiongrid diagramlink Floer homology

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Abstract: Given an oriented link in the 3-sphere, the Euler characteristic of its link Floer homology is known to coincide with its multivariate Alexander polynomial, an invariant only defined up to a sign and powers of the variables. In this paper, we get rid of this ambiguity by proving that this Euler characteristic is equal to the so-called Conway function, the representative of the multivariate Alexander polynomial introduced by Conway in 1970 and explicitly constructed by Hartley in 1983. This is achieved by creating a model of the Conway function adapted to rectangular diagrams, which is then compared to the Euler characteristic of the combinatorial version of link Floer homology.

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