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A proof of Dunfield–Gukov–Rasmussen conjecture

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In 2005, Dunfield, Gukov and Rasmussen conjectured an existence of a differential from the reduced triply graded Khovanov–Rozansky homology of a knot to its knot Floer homology defined by Ozsváth and Szabó. The main result of this paper is a proof of a suitably updated version of their conjecture: we show that the reduced triply graded homology is related to knot Floer homology by two spectral sequences, going through the intermediate \mathfrak{gl}_{0} homology constructed by the last two authors. The \mathfrak{gl}_{0} homology comes equipped with a spectral sequence from the reduced triply graded homology, and here we construct the other spectral sequence, from the \mathfrak{gl}_{0} homology to knot Floer homology. The new spectral sequence is of Bockstein type and arises from a subtle manipulation of coefficients. The main tools are quantum traces of foams and of singular Soergel bimodules and a \mathbb{Z} -valued cube of resolutions model for knot Floer homology, originally constructed by Ozsváth–Szabó over the field of two elements. As an application, we deduce that both the \mathfrak{gl}_{0} homology and the reduced triply graded Khovanov–Rozansky homology detect the unknot, the two trefoils, the figure eight knot and the cinquefoil.

Source: Journal of the European Mathematical Society

DOI: 10.4171/jems/1626

Authors: Anna Beliakova, Krzysztof Putyra, Louis-Hadrien Robert, Emmanuel Wagner

Institutions: University of Zurich, Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Paris Cité

Language: English

Topic: Geometric and Algebraic Topology

Subfield: Geometry and Topology

Field: Mathematics

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Awards: Applications of Hecke Algebras: Representations, Knots and Physics, Clusters, Homological Algebra, Representations and Mirror Symmetry, Algebraic Aspects of Mapping Class Groups and Related Groups