Conjecture on knot Floer homology of Piccirillo friends

Let KK be a homologically thin slice knot with genus g2g\ge 2 and unknotting number 11. Assume that KK has a positive unknotting crossing, and let JJ be the corresponding Piccirillo friend. The corresponding exotic R4\mathbb{R}^4 pairs are formed from these knots.

Knot Floer homology conjecture. The group HFK^(J)\widehat{HFK}(J) is supported nontrivially in exactly gg diagonals, shifted up in Maslov grading from KK. Hence the corresponding exotic R4\mathbb{R}^4 pairs are distinct.

This conjecture predicts a precise relationship between the knot Floer homology of a homologically thin slice knot and that of its Piccirillo friend, and would distinguish the associated exotic R4\mathbb{R}^4's.

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Primary source

Sean Eli and Shunyu Wan, “Exotic R^4's, RBG Links, and End Floer Homology”, arXiv:2607.07936 (2026).

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