{ "id": "2104.14687", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-04-29T22:41:41.000Z", "updated": "2021-04-29T22:41:41.000Z", "title": "The next-to-top term in knot Floer homology", "authors": [ "Yi Ni" ], "comment": "10 pages", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "Let $K$ be a null-homologous knot in a generalized L-space $Z$ with $b_1(Z)\\le1$. Let $F$ be a Seifert surface of $K$ with genus $g$. We show that if $\\widehat{HFK}(Z,K,[F],g)$ is supported in a single $\\mathbb Z/2\\mathbb Z$--grading, then \\[\\mathrm{rank}\\widehat{HFK}(Z,K,[F],g-1)\\ge\\mathrm{rank}\\widehat{HFK}(Z,K,[F],g).\\]", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-04-29T22:41:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57K18" ], "keywords": [ "knot floer homology", "next-to-top term", "seifert surface", "null-homologous knot" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }