The correspondence conjecture for transverse-link and branched-cover contact invariants

Let LL be a transverse representative of an alternating smooth link. Write ψ(L)Kh~(L)\psi(L)\in\widetilde{Kh}(L) for the transverse-link invariant in reduced Khovanov homology, let ξL\xi_L be the contact structure on the branched double cover Σ(L)\Sigma(L), and let c(ξL)HF^(Σ(L))c(\xi_L)\in\widehat{HF}(-\Sigma(L)) be its Heegaard Floer contact invariant. Let c0(ξL)c_0(\xi_L) denote the image of c(ξL)c(\xi_L) in the corresponding subquotient of the associated graded group, namely c0(ξL)HF^0(Σ(L))/HF^1(Σ(L))c_0(\xi_L)\in\widehat{HF}_0(-\Sigma(L))/\widehat{HF}_1(-\Sigma(L)). The Ozsváth–Szabó spectral sequence identifies the reduced Khovanov homology of LL with the associated graded group of HF^(Σ(L))\widehat{HF}(-\Sigma(L)). Correspondence conjecture. If LL is a transverse representative of an alternating smooth link, then the homological grading of ψ(L)Kh~(L)\psi(L)\in\widetilde{Kh}(L) is the same as the filtration level of c(ξL)HF^(Σ(L))c(\xi_L)\in\widehat{HF}(-\Sigma(L)), and this filtration level is 00. Moreover, under the isomorphism between Kh~(L)\widetilde{Kh}(L) and the associated graded group of HF^(Σ(L))\widehat{HF}(-\Sigma(L)), one has \ψ(L)=c0(ξL)\psi(L)=c_0(\xi_L)\\. This conjecture proposes a precise relationship between the transverse Khovanov invariant and the Heegaard Floer contact invariant; the stated grading and identification remain the conjectural content here.

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Olga Plamenevskaya, “Transverse knots, branched double covers and Heegaard Floer contact invariants”, arXiv:math/0412183 (2007).

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