Localization and the link Floer homology of doubly-periodic knots

Abstract

A knot \widetilde{K} \subset S^3 is q-periodic if there is a \mathbb Z_q-action preserving \widetilde{K} whose fixed set is an unknot U. The quotient of \widetilde{K} under the action is a second knot K. We construct equivariant Heegaard diagrams for q-periodic knots, and show that Murasugi's classical condition on the Alexander polynomials of periodic knots is a quick consequence of these diagrams. For \widetilde{K} a two-periodic knot, we show there is a spectral sequence whose E^1 page is \hat{\mathit{HFL}}(S^3,\widetilde{K}\cup U)\otimes V^{\otimes (2n-1)})\otimes \mathbb Z_2((θ)) and whose E^{\infty} pages is isomorphic to (\hat{\mathit{HFL}}(S^3,K\cup U)\otimes V^{\otimes (n-1)})\otimes \mathbb Z_2((θ)), as \mathbb Z_2((θ))-modules, and a related spectral sequence whose E^1 page is (\hat{\mathit{HFK}}(S^3,\widetilde{K})\otimes V^{\otimes (2n-1)}\otimes W)\otimes \mathbb Z_2((θ)) and whose E^{\infty} page is isomorphic to (\hat{\mathit{HFK}}(S^3,K)\otimes V^{\otimes (n-1)} \otimes W)\otimes \mathbb Z_2((θ)). As a consequence, we use these spectral sequences to recover a classical lower bound of Edmonds on the genus of \widetilde{K}, along with a weak version of a classical fibredness result of Edmonds and Livingston.

arXiv commentThis is the final version published in the Journal of Symplectic Geometry. Typos corrected, introduction reorganized, Corollary 1.5 expanded, and Example 1.9 added. Title updated from former preprint title: "A note on the link Floer homology of doubly-periodic knots."