The instanton–unoriented knot Floer homology correspondence conjecture

Let YY be a closed, oriented 33-manifold and KYK\subset Y a knot. Let HFK2(Y,K;C)HFK'_2(Y,K;\mathbb{C}) be the homology of the mapping-cone complex

CFK2(Y,K)=Cone(CFK^(Y,K)Ψ+ΦCFK^(Y,K)),CFK'_2(Y,K)=\operatorname{Cone}\bigl(\widehat{CFK}(Y,K)\xrightarrow{\Psi+\Phi}\widehat{CFK}(Y,K)\bigr),

and let I(Y,K;C)I^\sharp(Y,K;\mathbb{C}) denote unreduced singular instanton homology with complex coefficients. Here \widebarK\widebar{K} is the mirror knot and Kh(\widebarK;C)Kh(\widebar{K};\mathbb{C}) is its Khovanov homology. The instanton–unoriented Floer conjecture. There is an isomorphism

HFK2(Y,K;C)I(Y,K;C),HFK'_2(Y,K;\mathbb{C})\cong I^\sharp(Y,K;\mathbb{C}),

and a spectral sequence from Kh(\widebarK;C)Kh(\widebar{K};\mathbb{C}) to HFK2(Y,K;C)HFK'_2(Y,K;\mathbb{C}). This conjecture would relate the proposed unreduced unoriented knot Floer theory to singular instanton homology and provide a Khovanov-to-Floer spectral sequence; the supplied source gives no resolution status.

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Deeparaj Bhat, Zhenkun Li and Fan Ye, “Instanton 2-torsion and fibered knots”, arXiv:2512.24206 (2025).

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