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The paper extends knot theory to annular and toroidal pseudo knots.

New symplectic annular Khovanov homology connects knot theory to Floer homology.

The paper extends knot polynomials to annular and toroidal pseudo links.

Let L be a link in a thickened annulus. We show that its sutured annular Khovanov homology carries an action of the exterior current algebra of the Lie algebra sl_2. When L is an m-framed n-cable of a knot K in the three-sphere, its sutured annular Khovanov homology carries a commuting action of the symmetric group S_n…

Spectral sequence connects knot homologies to quotient knots.

Unified theories for colored sl(2) knot homology.

We introduce an sl(n) homology theory for knots and links in the thickened annulus. To do so, we first give a fresh perspective on sutured annular Khovanov homology, showing that its definition follows naturally from trace decategorifications of enhanced sl(2) foams and categorified quantum gl(m), via classical skew Ho…

How do Seifert surgeries on hyperbolic knots arise from those on torus knots? We approach this question from a networking viewpoint. The Seifert Surgery Network is a 1-dimensional complex whose vertices correspond to Seifert surgeries; two vertices are connected by an edge if one Seifert surgery is obtained from the ot…

New categories help understand knot algebra.

A Seifert surgery is an integral surgery on a knot in S^3 producing a Seifert fiber space which may contain an exceptional fiber of index 0. The Seifert Surgery Network is a 1-dimensional complex whose vertices correspond to Seifert surgeries; its edges correspond to single twistings along "seiferters" or "annular pair…

We prove that for a fixed braid index there are only finitely many possible shapes of the annular Rasmussen $d_t$ invariant of braid closures. Applying the same perspective to the knot Floer invariant $Υ_K(t)$, we show that for a fixed concordance genus of $K$ there are only finitely many possibilities for $Υ_K(t)$. Fo…

New proof shows certain knots are hyperbolic.

The construction of knots via annular twisting has been used to create families of knots yielding the same manifold via Dehn surgery. Prior examples have all involved Dehn surgery where the surgery slope is an integral multiple of 2. In this note we prove that for any integer $n$ there exist infinitely many different k…

Paper constructs a spectral sequence linking annular Khovanov homology to reduced Khovanov homology.

We prove that the knot Floer homology of a fibered knot is nontrivial in its next-to-top Alexander grading. Immediate applications include new proofs of Krcatovich's result that knots with $L$-space surgeries are prime and Hedden and Watson's result that the rank of knot Floer homology detects the trefoil among knots i…

New link detection results using knot and link Floer homology.

Study shows links with unbounded annular Khovanov gradings but bounded Floer gradings.

In this paper, we introduce the annular instanton Floer homology which is defined for links in a thickened annulus. It is an analogue of the annular Khovanov homology. A spectral sequence whose second page is the annular Khovanov homology and which converges to the annular instanton Floer homology is constructed. As an…

A triangulation of a compact 3-manifold is annular-efficient if it is 0-efficient and the only normal, incompressible annuli are thin edge-linking. If a compact 3-manifold has an annular-efficient triangulation, then it is irreducible, boundary-irreducible, and an-annular. Conversely, it is shown that for a compact, ir…

Study detects a specific type of link using annular Khovanov homology.

We construct a stable homotopy refinement of quantum annular homology, a link homology theory introduced by Beliakova, Putyra and Wehrli. For each $r\geq 2$ we associate to an annular link $L$ a naive $\mathbb{Z}/r\mathbb{Z}$-equivariant spectrum whose cohomology is isomorphic to the quantum annular homology of $L$ as …

We prove that the Khovanov-Lee complex of an oriented link, L, in a thickened annulus, A x I, has the structure of a bifiltered complex whose filtered chain homotopy type is an invariant of the isotopy class of L in A x I. Using ideas of Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo as reinterpreted by Livingston, we use this structure to de…

Motivated by topology, we develop a general theory of traces and shadows for an endobicategory, which is a~pair: bicategory $\mathbf{C}$ and endobifunctor $Σ\colon \mathbf C \to\mathbf C$. For a graded linear bicategory and a fixed invertible parameter $q$, we quantize this theory by using the endofunctor $Σ_q$ such th…

New method associates annular links to elements of Thompson's group T.

Stoimenow and Kidwell asked the following question: Let $K$ be a non-trivial knot, and let $W(K)$ be a Whitehead double of $K$. Let $F(a,z)$ be the Kauffman polynomial and $P(v,z)$ the skein polynomial. Is then always $\max°_z P_{W(K)} - 1 = 2 \max°_z F_K$? Here this question is rephrased in more general terms as a con…

Study on folded ribbon knots and their minimum length.

New equivariant version of Khovanov homology for annuli.

We define an annular version of odd Khovanov homology and prove that it carries an action of the Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{gl}(1|1)$ which is preserved under annular Reidemeister moves.

Study proves existence and nonexistence for annular surfaces with specific curvature and boundary.

Extends quantum annular homology to infinite sets.

Proves a conjecture for annular links using homology classes.

Lifts an $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ action to annular Khovanov homology's stable refinement.

Define web algebras for annular SL(2) and SL(3) using foam TQFTs.

Fixed pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms detect cinquefoil knot.

New stable homotopy refinement of quantum annular Khovanov homology.

In this article, we study the ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in R^m on annular ends. This work is a continuation of previous work of Dethloff-Ha. We thus give an improvement of the results on annular ends of complete minimal surfaces of Jin-Ru.

New link detection results using closures of 3-braids.

For a link in a thickened annulus $A \times I$, we define a $\mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z}$ filtration on Sarkar-Seed-Szabó's perturbation of the geometric spectral sequence. The filtered chain homotopy type is an invariant of the isotopy class of the annular link. From this, we define a two-dimensiona…

Let $\widetilde{K}$ be a two-periodic braid and let $K$ be its quotient. In this paper we show there is a spectral sequence from the next-to-top winding number grading of the sutured annular Khovanov homology of the closure of $\widetilde{K}$ to the next-to-top winding number grading of the sutured annular Khovanov hom…

The paper extends knotoid theory to annular and toroidal settings.

New structure for quantum algebra representations.

In this article, we study the ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in R^3 and R^4 on annular ends. We obtain results which are similar to the ones obtained by Fujimoto and Ru for (the whole) complete minimal surfaces, thus we show that the restriction of the Gauss map to an annular end of such a c…

In this paper we describe the notion of an annular end of a Riemann surface being of finite type with respect to some harmonic function and prove some theoretical results relating the conformal structure of such an annular end to the level sets of the harmonic function. We then apply these results to understand and cha…

Develops a new spectrum for annular links, recovering a transverse invariant at extreme gradings.

We define a third grading on Khovanov homology, which is an invariant of annular links but changes by $\pm 1$ under stabilization. We illustrate the use of our computer implementation, and give some example calculations.

In this article, we study the modified defect relations of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ and $\mathbb R^4$ on annular ends. We obtain results which are similar to the ones obtained by Fujimoto~[J. Differential Geometry \textbf{29} (1989), 245-262] for (the whole) complete minimal surfaces…

We construct a braid conjugacy class invariant $κ$ by refining Plamenevskaya's transverse element $ψ$ in Khovanov homology via the annular grading. While $κ$ is not an invariant of transverse links, it distinguishes some braids whose closures share the same classical invariants but are not transversely isotopic. Using …

Short note observes quantum Hochschild homology as a composition of known operations.