Recutting pairs of initial-side commutation pentagons #
Two empty pentagons turning on the initial side of the replaced grid line share that side. Their distinct terminal sides have two possible cyclic orders. When the second lies inside the first column interval, the recut is an initial-side hexagon followed by a rectangle; in the complementary order it is a rectangle followed by an initial-side hexagon. The two turn rows occur in the required order on either hexagon.
If the pentagons avoid the X-markings in the forward and reverse diagrams, both recuts are
counted and have no counted hexagon-composite recut partner. These are the two initial--initial
geometric cases in the matching between unpaired hexagon composites and pentagon pairs in the
commutation homotopy equation. No homotopy equation or weight identity is asserted here.
References #
Ozsváth--Stipsicz--Szabó, Grid Homology for Knots and Links, Section 5.1, and Manolescu--Ozsváth--Szabó--Thurston, On combinatorial link Floer homology, Section 3.1, Proposition 3.2 (arXiv:math/0610559).
Recut two empty initial-side pentagons into an initial-side hexagon followed by a rectangle, when the second terminal side is inside the first column interval.
Instances For
Forgetting the hexagon turns returns the canonical empty-rectangle recut.
The hexagon--rectangle composite is an empty-rectangle recut of the pentagon pair.
The recut hexagon turns on its initial side.
Recut two empty initial-side pentagons into a rectangle followed by an initial-side hexagon, when the first terminal side is inside the second column interval.
Instances For
Forgetting the hexagon turns returns the canonical empty-rectangle recut.
The rectangle--hexagon composite is an empty-rectangle recut of the pentagon pair.
The hexagon in the complementary recut turns on its initial side.
The initial-side pentagon recut is a counted hexagon--rectangle composite when the
forward pentagon and the reverse pentagon avoid their respective X-markings.
The complementary initial-side pentagon recut is a counted rectangle--hexagon composite
when the forward and reverse pentagons avoid their respective X-markings.
The counted initial-side pentagon recut has no counted composite recut partner. The original pentagon pair cannot contain a hexagon: neither of its row intervals contains both turn rows in the required order.
The counted complementary initial-side recut has no counted composite recut partner.
Two counted initial-side pentagons for an actual commutation and its reverse admit
an unpaired hexagon-composite recut in the strict interior-terminal-side branch.
The reverse pentagon retains the indices of C.reverse.