Coverage conjecture for real knot Floer homology of a doubled knot

Let KK be any knot in S3S^3. The notation τKr\tau K^r denotes the image of the reverse knot under the involution τ\tau, and \fra\fra denotes auxiliary data for the real knot Floer group.

Coverage conjecture. The bigraded group HFK^(K)\widehat{\operatorname{HFK}}(K) can be covered from

HFKR^(K#τKr,\fra)\widehat{\operatorname{HFKR}}(K\#\tau K^r,\fra)

for any choice of auxiliary data.

This conjecture proposes that the ordinary knot Floer homology of any knot is recoverable from the real knot Floer homology of its associated connected sum. The meaning of “covered from” is not further specified in the supplied text, so the precise relationship remains to be clarified.

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Primary source

Yonghan Xiao, “Real link Floer homology”, arXiv:2604.21240 (2026).

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