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Applications of Heegaard Floer Homology to Knot Concordance

Posted on:2017-04-09Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Princeton UniversityCandidate:Truong, Linh MyFull Text:PDF
GTID:1450390008455082Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
We consider several applications of Heegaard Floer homology to the study of knot concordance.;Using the techniques of bordered Heegaard Floer homology, we compute the concordance invariant tau for a family of satellite knots that generalizes Whitehead doubles.;We also construct an integer lift epsilon of the concordance invariant epsilon. We introduce an interpretation of epsilon in terms of a filtration on C¯F¯ (S3NK) induced by a family of knots mu n ⊂ S3NK..;Finally, we use truncated Heegaard Floer homology to construct a sequence of concordance invariants nun that generalizes previously known concordance invariants nu, nu', and nu+.
Keywords/Search Tags:Heegaard floer homology, Concordance
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