Instanton dimensions of knot surgeries over arbitrary fields

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Main Authors: Li, Zhenkun, Ye, Fan
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Ye, Fan
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Ye, Fan
contents Suppose $K \subset S^3$ is a knot and suppose $p$ and $q$ are co-prime integers with $q\ge 1$. For any field $\mathbb{K}$, we establish a dimension formula for the framed instanton homology of knot surgeries: $$ \dim I^\sharp(S^3_{p/q}(K); \mathbb{K}) = q \cdot r_{\mathbb{K}}(K) + |p - q \cdot ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)| $$ for certain integers $r_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ and $ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$, except possibly when $p/q = ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ and $ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ is even. This formula generalizes the result of Baldwin--Sivek from the case $\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{C}$ to arbitrary fields. Based on the result for $\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{Z}/2$, we obtain that $S^3_{p/q}(K)$ is not $SU(2)$-abelian for any knot $K$ other than the unknot and the right-handed trefoil whenever $p/q \in [0,6)$ and $p \in \{ a^e, 2a^e \}$ for some prime number $a$ and natural number $e$, thereby extending existing results for $p/q \in [0,5]$ and $p = a^e$. A byproduct of the techniques developed in this paper is that we generalize the distance-two surgery exact triangle by Culler--Daemi--Xie and Daemi--Miller-Eismeier--Lidman from $\mathbb{Z}/2$ coefficients to any coefficient ring.
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spellingShingle Instanton dimensions of knot surgeries over arbitrary fields
Li, Zhenkun
Ye, Fan
Geometric Topology
Suppose $K \subset S^3$ is a knot and suppose $p$ and $q$ are co-prime integers with $q\ge 1$. For any field $\mathbb{K}$, we establish a dimension formula for the framed instanton homology of knot surgeries: $$ \dim I^\sharp(S^3_{p/q}(K); \mathbb{K}) = q \cdot r_{\mathbb{K}}(K) + |p - q \cdot ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)| $$ for certain integers $r_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ and $ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$, except possibly when $p/q = ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ and $ν^\sharp_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ is even. This formula generalizes the result of Baldwin--Sivek from the case $\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{C}$ to arbitrary fields. Based on the result for $\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{Z}/2$, we obtain that $S^3_{p/q}(K)$ is not $SU(2)$-abelian for any knot $K$ other than the unknot and the right-handed trefoil whenever $p/q \in [0,6)$ and $p \in \{ a^e, 2a^e \}$ for some prime number $a$ and natural number $e$, thereby extending existing results for $p/q \in [0,5]$ and $p = a^e$. A byproduct of the techniques developed in this paper is that we generalize the distance-two surgery exact triangle by Culler--Daemi--Xie and Daemi--Miller-Eismeier--Lidman from $\mathbb{Z}/2$ coefficients to any coefficient ring.
title Instanton dimensions of knot surgeries over arbitrary fields
topic Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17877