Nontrivial real knot Floer homology conjecture for strongly invertible knots

Let KK be any knot in S3S^3. A strong inversion is an involution of the knot having the standard strong-inversion property. A real knot Floer group is the group associated to a knot together with a chosen strong inversion.

Nontriviality conjecture. If KK admits a strong inversion, then there is a strong inversion on KK with nontrivial real knot Floer group.

Computations for knots with at most seven crossings motivate the claim: although real knot Floer groups can be trivial for nontrivial knots, the real Alexander polynomial distinguishes the tested strong inversions except for 777_7. Whether every strongly invertible knot has some inversion with nontrivial real knot Floer homology remains open.

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

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