Transverse knots, branched double covers and Heegaard Floer contact invariants

DOI10.4310/JSG.2006.V4.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ873762zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olga Plamenevskaya

Publication date 20 March 2007

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412183

zbMATH Keywords

double branched coveringHeegaard Floer homologyKhovanov homologyOzsváth-Szabó invarianttransverse link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Floer homology (57R58)

Abstract: Given a transverse link in the standard contact 3-sphere, we study the contact manifold that arises as a branched double cover of the sphere. We give a contact surgery description of such manifolds, which allows to determine the Heegaard Floer contact invariants for some of them. By example of the knots of Birman--Menasco, we show that these contact manifolds may fail to distinguish between non-isotopic transverse knots. We also investigate the relation between the Heegaard Floer contact invariants of the branched double covers and the Khovanov homology, in particular, the transverse link invariant we introduce in a related paper.

Review text

Let \(L \subset S^3\) be a transverse link with respect to the standard contact structure \(\xi_0\) on the 3-sphere \(S^3\) and \(\Sigma(L)\) be the double covering of \(S^3\) branched over \(L\). Then, the pullback of \(\xi_0\) can be perturbed over \(L\) to give a well defined contact structure \(\xi_L\) on \(\Sigma(L)\). The paper under review is devoted to studying some relations between the properties of the contact manifold \((\Sigma(L),\xi_L)\) and those of \(L\) as a transverse link in \((S^3,\xi_0)\). In particular, the author shows how to represent \((\Sigma(L),\xi_L)\) in terms of contact surgery, once \(L\) is made into closed braid by a transverse isotopy. Then, using such contact surgery description she proves that \((\Sigma(K_1),\xi_{K_1})\) and \((\Sigma(K_2),\xi_{K_2})\) are contactomorphic, for certain pairs of transverse knots \(K_1\) and \(K_2\), which have the same self-linking number and are isotopic as smooth knots, but not as transverse knots. Moreover, she derives information on the Ozsváth-Szabó invariant of \((\Sigma(L),\xi_L)\) for certain special forms of the link \(L\) and explores the connection between this invariant and the Khovanov homological invariant of \(L\) introduced in [\textit{O. Plamenevskaya}, Math. Res. Lett. 13, No.~4, 571--586 (2006; Zbl 1143.57006)].

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(12)

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• On knot Floer homology in double branched covers
• Examples of non-minimal open books with high fractional Dehn twist coefficient
• Non-simplicity of isocontact embeddings in all higher dimensions
• A geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology
• A NOTE ON CLOSED 3-BRAIDS
• On Transverse Knots and Branched Covers
• Handle moves in contact surgery diagrams
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• A characterization of quasipositive two-bridge knots
• Khovanov homology and the cinquefoil
• On geography of symplectic fillings of contact branched covers

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