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

Heegaard Floer homologyKhovanov homologytransverse linkdouble branched coveringOzsváth-Szabó invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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