{"title":"New Heegaard Floer slice genus and clasp number bounds","authors":"András Juhász,Ian Zemke","doi":"10.4171/qt/268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/268","url":null,"abstract":"We define several concordance invariants using knot Floer homology, which give improvements over known slice genus and clasp number bounds from Heegaard Floer homology. We also prove that the involutive correction terms of Hendricks and Manolescu give both a slice genus and a clasp number bound.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A filtered mapping cone formula for cables of the knot meridian","authors":"Hugo Zhou","doi":"10.4171/qt/267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/267","url":null,"abstract":"We construct a filtered mapping cone formula that computes the knot Floer complex of the (n,1) -cable of the knot meridian in any rational surgery, generalizing Truong’s result about the (n,1) -cable of the knot meridian in large surgery and Hedden–Levine’s filtered mapping cone formula. As an application, we show that there exist knots in integer homology spheres with arbitrary varphi_{i,j} values for any i>jgeq 0 , where varphi_{i,j} are the concordance homomorphisms defined in the work of Dai–Hom–Stoffregen–Truong. This formula also leads to the construction of knots in integer homology spheres that bound PL surfaces with arbitrarily large genus in a homology ball in the work of Hom–Stoffregen–Zhou.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149021044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Odd Khovanov homology and higher representation theory","authors":"Léo Schelstraete,Pedro Vaz","doi":"10.4171/qt/266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/266","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a super analogue of mathfrak{gl}_{2} -foams and use it to define an invariant of oriented tangles, shown to coincide with odd Khovanov homology when restricted to links. We then define a supercategorification of the q -Schur algebra of level 2 and realize our construction as a certain super-2-representation. This gives a representation-theoretic construction of odd Khovanov homology, where signs naturally arise as a byproduct of the super-2-categorical structure. In the process, we define a tensor product for chain complexes in super-2-categories, suitably compatible with homotopies. This could be of independent interest.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148932738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goldman–Turaev formality from the Kontsevich integral","authors":"Dror Bar-Natan,Zsuzsanna Dancso,Tamara Hogan,Jessica Liu,Nancy Scherich","doi":"10.4171/qt/265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/265","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new solution to the formality problem for the framed Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra in genus zero, constructing Goldman–Turaev homomorphic expansions (formality isomorphisms) from the Kontsevich integral. Our proof uses a three-dimensional derivation of the Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra arising from a low-degree Vassiliev quotient – the emergent quotient – of tangles in a thickened punctured disk modulo a Conway skein relation. This is in contrast to Massuyeau’s 2018 proof using braids. A feature of our approach is a general conceptual framework which is applied to prove the compatibility of the homomorphic expansion with both the Goldman bracket and the technically challenging Turaev cobracket.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integral Klein bottle surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology","authors":"Robert DeYeso III","doi":"10.4171/qt/264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/264","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study which closed, connected, orientable three-manifolds X containing a Klein bottle arise as integral Dehn surgery along a knot in S^{3} . Such X are presentable as a gluing of the twisted I -bundle over the Klein bottle to a knot manifold, and we use a variety of Heegaard Floer-type invariants to generate surgery obstructions. Suppose that X is 8 -surgery along a genus two knot and arises by gluing the twisted I -bundle over the Klein bottle to an S^{3} knot complement. We show that X is an L -space, it must be the dihedral manifold (-1; frac{1}{2}, frac{1}{2}, frac{2}{5}) , and the surgery knot must be K=T(2,5) .","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"6 1","pages":"681-722"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148932739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decategorified Heegaard Floer theory and actions of both $E$ and $F$","authors":"Andrew Manion","doi":"10.4171/qt/204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139447005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curves in the disc, the type $B$ braid group, and a type $B$ zigzag algebra","authors":"Edmund Heng, Kie Seng Nge","doi":"10.4171/qt/198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"725 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139248767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invariants of $mathbb{Z}/p$-homology 3-spheres from the abelianization of the level-$p$ mapping class group","authors":"Wolfgang Pitsch, Ricard Riba","doi":"10.4171/qt/196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"2005 313","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating TQFT invariants from $G$-crossed braided spherical fusion categories via Kirby diagrams with 3-handles","authors":"Manuel Bärenz","doi":"10.4171/qt/183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/183","url":null,"abstract":"A family of TQFTs parametrised by G-crossed braided spherical fusion categories has been defined recently as a state sum model and as a Hamiltonian lattice model. Concrete calculations of the resulting manifold invariants are scarce because of the combinatorial complexity of triangulations, if nothing else. Handle decompositions, and in particular Kirby diagrams are known to offer an economic and intuitive description of 4-manifolds. We show that if 3-handles are added to the picture, the state sum model can be conveniently redefined by translating Kirby diagrams into the graphical calculus of a G-crossed braided spherical fusion category. ","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"5 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actions of $sltwo$ on algebras appearing in categorification","authors":"Ben Elias, You Qi","doi":"10.4171/qt/181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"26 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}