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math.GT2023

Planar graphs deformations of bordered knot algebras

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

In an earlier paper, we introduced ``bordered knot algebras'', which are graded algebras indexed by a pair of integers (m,k). In a subsequent paper, we introduced a two-parameter f…

math.GT2023

Exotic definite four-manifolds with non-trivial fundamental group

Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

Inspired by a recent result of Levine-Lidman-Piccirillo, we construct infinitely many exotic smooth structures on some closed four-manifolds with definite intersection form and fun…

math.GT2022

The pong algebra

Peter S. Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

In an earlier paper, we described bordered algebras for knot Floer homology. In this paper, we introduce a differential graded algebra, the pong algebra and compute the A-infinity…

math.GT2020

A note on thickness of knots

Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

We introduce a numerical invariant β(K) of a knot K which measures how non-alternating K is. We prove an inequality between β(K) and the (knot Floer) thickness of K. As an applicat…

math.GT2020

Algebras with matchings and link Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We explain how to use bordered algebras to compute a version of link Floer homology. As a corollary, we also give a fast computation of the Thuston polytope for links in the three-…

math.GT2019★ 7 cited

Algebras with matchings and knot Floer homology

Zoltan Szabo, Peter Ozsvath

Knot Floer homology is a knot invariant defined using holomorphic curves. In more recent work, taking cues from bordered Floer homology,the authors described another knot invariant…

math.GT2017

Bordered knot algebras with matchings

Peter S. Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

This paper generalizes the bordered-algebraic knot invariant introduced in an earlier paper, giving an invariant now with more algebraic structure. It also introduces signs to defi…

math.GT2017

An overview of knot Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots discovered by the authors and, independently, Jacob Rasmussen. The discovery of this invariant grew naturally out of studying how a ce…

math.GT2016

Kauffman states, bordered algebras, and a bigraded knot invariant

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We define and study a bigraded knot invariant whose Euler characteristic is the Alexander polynomial, closely connected to knot Floer homology. The invariant is the homology of a c…

math.GT2015

Unoriented knot Floer homology and the unoriented four-ball genus

Peter Ozsvath, Andras Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

In an earlier work, we introduced a family of t-modified knot Floer homologies, defined by modifying the construction of knot Floer homology HFK-minus. The resulting groups were th…

math.GT2014

A perturbation of the geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology

Sucharit Sarkar, Cotton Seed, Zoltan Szabo

We study the relationship between Bar-Natan's perturbation in Khovanov homology and Szabo's geometric spectral sequence, and construct a link invariant that generalizes both into a…

math.GT2014★ 184 cited

Concordance homomorphisms from knot Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Andras Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

We modify the construction of knot Floer homology to produce a one-parameter family of homologies for knots in the three-sphere. These invariants can be used to give homomorphisms…

math.GT2010★ 29 cited

A geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology

Zoltan Szabo

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study a geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology. The construction was motivated by a similar spectral sequence from Khovanov homo…

math.GT2009★ 6 cited

Combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology and nice Heegaard diagrams

Peter S. Ozsvath, Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

We consider a stabilized version of hat Heegaard Floer homology of a 3-manifold Y (i.e. the U=0 variant of Heegaard Floer homology for closed 3-manifolds). We give a combinatorial…

math.GT2008★ 3 cited

A combinatorial description of the version of Heegaard Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Andras Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

We show that every 3--manifold admits a Heegaard diagram in which a truncated version of Heegaard Floer homology (when the holomorpic disks pass through the basepoints at most once…

math.GT2007★ 13 cited

On the skein exact squence for knot Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

The aim of this paper is to study the skein exact sequence for knot Floer homology. We prove precise graded version of this sequence, and also one using $\HFm$. Moreover, a complet…

math.GT2007★ 18 cited

A cube of resolutions for knot Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We develop a skein exact sequence for knot Floer homology, involving singular knots. This leads to an explicit, algebraic description of knot Floer homology in terms of a braid pro…

math.GT2007★ 11 cited

Floer homology and singular knots

Peter Ozsvath, Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo

We define Floer homology theories for oriented, singular knots in S^3 and show that one of these theories can be defined combinatorially for planar singular knots.

math.GT2006★ 121 cited

Legendrian knots, transverse knots and combinatorial Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo, Dylan Thurston

Using the combinatorial approach to knot Floer homology, we define an invariant for Legendrian knots in the three-sphere, which takes values in link Floer homology. This invariant…

math.GT2006★ 5 cited

Rational blow-downs and smoothings of surface singularities

Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo, Jonathan Wahl

In this paper we give a necessary combinatorial condition for a negative--definite plumbing tree to be suitable for rational blow--down, or to be the graph of a complex surface sin…

math.GT2006★ 70 cited

On combinatorial link Floer homology

Ciprian Manolescu, Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo +1

Link Floer homology is an invariant for links defined using a suitable version of Lagrangian Floer homology. In an earlier paper, this invariant was given a combinatorial descripti…

math.GT2006★ 8 cited

The Dehn surgery characterization of the trefoil and the figure eight knot

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We give a Dehn surgery characterization of the trefoil and the figure eight knots. These results are gotten by combining surgery formulas in Heegaard Floer homology from an earlier…

math.GT2006

Heegaard diagrams and Floer homology

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We review the construction of Heegaard Floer homology for closed three-manifolds and also for knots and links in the three-sphere. We also discuss three applications of this invari…

math.GT2006★ 5 cited

Link Floer homology and the Thurston norm

Peter Ozsvath, Zoltan Szabo

We show that link Floer homology detects the Thurston norm of a link complement. As an application, we show that the Thurston polytope of an alternating link is dual to the Newton…