An untwisted cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology

  • Ciprian Manolescu

    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Abstract

Ozsváth and Szabó gave a combinatorial description of knot Floer homology based on a cube of resolutions, which uses maps with twisted coefficients. We study the specialization of their construction. The associated spectral sequence converges to knot Floer homology, and we conjecture that its page is isomorphic to the HOMFLY-PT chain complex of Khovanov and Rozansky. At the level of each summand, this conjecture can be stated in terms of an isomorphism between certain Tor groups. As evidence for the conjecture, we prove that such an isomorphism exists in degree zero.

Cite this article

Ciprian Manolescu, An untwisted cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology. Quantum Topol. 5 (2014), no. 2, pp. 185–223

DOI 10.4171/QT/50