A sheaf‐theoretic SL(2,C) Floer homology for knots

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12271zbMATH Open1482.57010arXiv1811.07000OpenAlexW2901390397WikidataQ127818766 ScholiaQ127818766MaRDI QIDQ5205596FDOQ5205596

Authors: Laurent Côté, Ciprian Manolescu 

Publication date: 12 December 2019

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

Abstract: Using the theory of perverse sheaves of vanishing cycles, we define a homological invariant of knots in three-manifolds, similar to the three-manifold invariant constructed by Abouzaid and the second author. We use spaces of SL(2,C) flat connections with fixed holonomy around the meridian of the knot. Thus, our invariant is a sheaf-theoretic SL(2,C) analogue of the singular knot instanton homology of Kronheimer and Mrowka. We prove that for two-bridge and torus knots, the SL(2,C) invariant is determined by the l-degree of the $widehatA$-polynomial. However, this is not true in general, as can be shown by considering connected sums of knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07000

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologyperverse sheavesknots in 3-manifolds\(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{C})\) connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Floer homology (57R58) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18)

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