Splicing knot complements and bordered Floer homology

Journal Article

AbstractWe show that the integer homology sphere obtained by splicing two nontrivial knot complements in integer homology sphere L-spaces has Heegaard Floer homology of rank strictly greater than one. In particular, splicing the complements of nontrivial knots in the 3-sphere never produces an L-space. The proof uses bordered Floer homology.

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Duke Authors

Cited Authors

  • Hedden, M; Levine, AS

Published Date

  • January 1, 2016

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 2016 / 720

Published By

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1435-5345

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0075-4102

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1515/crelle-2014-0064