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TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.Commutation.Homotopy.FullyBlocked

The fully blocked commutation homotopy #

Setting every marking variable to zero in the hexagon-counting commutation homotopy H of a validated column commutation C retains exactly the empty hexagons avoiding every O- and X-marking. The result is the hexagon map H~ of the fully blocked complex GC~(G), which is the reduction of H modulo the variables (LinearMap.constantCoeffReduction).

Reducing the two homotopy equations of the unblocked complex modulo the variables gives their fully blocked versions. Write Φ~ : GC~(G) → GC~(G') and Ψ~ : GC~(G') → GC~(G) for the fully blocked pentagon maps of C and of its reverse, where G' is the commuted diagram, and H~' for the fully blocked hexagon map of the reverse commutation. Then

∂~ ∘ H~ + H~ ∘ ∂~ = 1 + Ψ~ ∘ Φ~ and ∂~' ∘ H~' + H~' ∘ ∂~' = 1 + Φ~ ∘ Ψ~,

so Φ~ and Ψ~ are mutually inverse chain homotopy equivalences of the fully blocked complexes. Reduction modulo the variables needs no identification of the chain modules of G and of the doubly commuted diagram, since the fully blocked chain module GridChain (ZMod 2) n does not depend on the diagram.

Main definitions #

Main results #

References #

Ozsváth--Stipsicz--Szabó, Grid Homology for Knots and Links, Sections 4.4 and 5.1, and Manolescu--Ozsváth--Szabó--Thurston, On combinatorial link Floer homology, Section 3.1 (arXiv:math/0610559). The construction reduces the existing GridDiagram.commutationHomotopy modulo the variables, as GridDiagram.fullyBlockedCommutationMap reduces the pentagon map.

The fully blocked commutation homotopy: its matrix entries are the constant coefficients of the hexagon coefficients of the commutation homotopy. It counts the empty hexagons carrying neither X- nor O-markings, over any commutative coefficient semiring.

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    On a single generator, the fully blocked homotopy reads the constant hexagon coefficient.

    The fully blocked homotopy equation. The fully blocked hexagon map H~ is a chain homotopy between the identity of GC~(G) and the round trip Ψ~ ∘ Φ~ through the commuted diagram: ∂~ ∘ H~ + H~ ∘ ∂~ = 1 + Ψ~ ∘ Φ~.

    The fully blocked homotopy equation on the commuted diagram. The fully blocked hexagon map H~' of the reverse commutation is a chain homotopy between the identity of GC~(G') and the round trip Φ~ ∘ Ψ~ through G: ∂~' ∘ H~' + H~' ∘ ∂~' = 1 + Φ~ ∘ Ψ~.