Longitude Floer homology and the Whitehead double

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Abstract: We define the longitude Floer homology of a knot K in S^3 and show that it is a topological invariant of K. Some basic properties of these homology groups are derived. In particular, we show that they distinguish the genus of K. We also make explicit computations for the (2,2n+1) torus knots. Finally a correspondence between the longitude Floer homology of K and the Ozsvath-Szabo Floer homology of its Whitehead double K_L is obtained.


Recall that a Heegaard diagram \((\Sigma, \alpha_1, \cdots, \alpha_g; \beta_2, \cdots, \beta_g)\) of a knot complement in \(S^3\) gives a Heegaard diagram \((\Sigma, \alpha_1, \cdots, \alpha_g; \mu, \beta_2, \cdots, \beta_g)\) for the added meridian \(\mu\). Fix a point \(v\in \mu \setminus \cup_{i=1}^g \alpha_i\) and \(z, w\) on the two sides of a curve close to \(v\). Then Ozsváth and Szabó defined a symplectic Floer homology from the two real (Lagrangian) tori \(T_{\alpha} =\alpha_1 \times \cdots \times \alpha_g\) and \(T_{\beta} = \mu \times \beta_2 \cdots \times \beta_g\) in the symplectic manifold Sym\(^g(\Sigma)\). Associated with different liftings of the Maslov index from marked points \(z, w\), \(\widehat{HFK}(K), HFK^{\infty}(K), HFK^{\pm}(K)\) are defined and shown to be topological invariants for the knot \(K\) in \(S^3\). One can replace \(\mu\) by \([p/q] =p\mu + q\lambda\) to define a corresponding Heegaard diagram \((\Sigma, \alpha_1, \cdots, \alpha_g; [p/q], \beta_2, \cdots, \beta_g)\) for the manifold \(K_{p/q}\) obtained from the \((p, q)\) Dehn surgery. A similar construction can be applied to define topological invariants for \(K_{p/q}\). The paper under review is to define similar Floer homologies for \(K_{0/1}\). Some similar properties (Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.3) for \(K_{0/1}\) are obtained. The author calls it the longitude Floer homology. Theorem 1.3 links the longitude Floer homology of the Whitehead double of a knot in \(S^3\) with the Ozsváth and Szabó Floer homology. Section 2 provides the basic set-up. The author claims that the longitude Floer homology is nontrivial for nontrivial knots in Theorem 3.1. Section 4 computes the \((2, 2n+1)\) torus knots. An appropriate Heegaard diagram for the Whitehead double of a knot in \(S^3\) is given in section 5, and Theorem 1.3 is proved in the last section 6. One may obtain the similar results for \(K_{p/q}\) corresponding to \((p, q)\) Dehn surgery. It would be interesting to know if there is any relation among the Floer homologies of \(K_{p/q}\) for different surgery coefficients \((p, q)\).











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