Rank Inequalities on Knot Floer Homology of Periodic Knots

Abstract

Let $\tilde{K}$ be a 2-periodic knot in $S^3$ with quotient $K$. We prove a rank inequality between the knot Floer homology of $\tilde{K}$ and the knot Floer homology of $K$ using a spectral sequence of Hendricks, Lipshitz and Sarkar. We also conjecture a filtered refinement of this inequality, for which we give computational evidence, and produce applications to the Alexander polynomials of $\tilde{K}$ and $K$.

Updated to match the version accepted for publication in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society