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TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.Homology.Commutation.Basic

The pentagon map on unblocked grid homology #

The pentagon-counting map of a column turn (GridDiagram.ColumnTurn) intertwines the unblocked differentials. It therefore induces a specified map on GH⁻, sending the class of a cycle to the class of its pentagon image. The map is semilinear along the transposition of the two coefficient variables. Over any commutative ring of characteristic two, for diagrams with an odd number of link components it raises the Maslov--Alexander bigrading by the bidegree GridDiagram.commutationBidegree of the turn, which vanishes for a column commutation. For knot grids it is linear over R[U] and homogeneous for the Alexander grading (GridDiagram.IsKnot.isHomogeneous_unblockedHomologyCommutationLinearMap).

The construction uses the concrete cycle quotient through unblockedHomologyIso and Mathlib's Submodule.mapQ. It supplies the homology map itself; invertibility requires the hexagon homotopy identities. In one direction this is recorded here: if the commutation map Φ of a column turn followed by a commutation map Ψ back at the same columns is chain homotopic to multiplication by a polynomial p, then ΨΦ acts on GH⁻ as p (GridDiagram.unblockedHomologyClass_commutationMap_withTurnRow_commutationMap).

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 (arXiv:math/0610559).

The pentagon map of a column turn sends cycles to cycles.

The commutation map of a column turn followed by the commutation map back, turning at the same columns in any row t, sends cycles of GC⁻(G) to cycles of GC⁻(G).

The specified map on unblocked grid homology induced by the pentagon map of a column turn, for instance that of a column commutation. It is semilinear along the renaming that exchanges the two variables of the exchanged columns.

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    The commutation map sends a cycle class to the class of its pentagon image.

    The return composite on homology. Let Φ be the commutation map of the column turn C and Ψ the commutation map back, turning at the same columns in row t. If ΨΦ is chain homotopic to multiplication by a polynomial p, that is ∂H + H∂ = p + ΨΦ over a ring of characteristic two, then ΨΦ sends the class in GH⁻(G) of every cycle z to p times that class.

    The commutation map of a column turn C on GH⁻ raises the full Maslov--Alexander bidegree by G.commutationBidegree C.

    The commutation map of a column turn C on GH⁻ raises the Alexander grading by the Alexander component of G.commutationBidegree C.

    For a knot grid, the specified commutation map of a column turn is linear over R[U], since renaming the grid variables commutes with their common specialization to U.

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      The R[U]-linear map acts by the specified semilinear commutation map.

      For a knot grid, the R[U]-linear commutation map of a column turn C is homogeneous for the Alexander gradings, of degree the Alexander component of G.commutationBidegree C.