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TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.SmallGrid.Gradings

The standard two-by-two grid grading computation #

This file records the first explicit grading calculation for the grid-combinatorial lane. There are exactly two grid states in grid size two: the identity graph and the transposition graph. The standard 2 × 2 grid diagram used for the unknot has O markings on the identity graph and X markings on the transposition graph.

The named states are available from StateCardinality and the standard diagram itself from Unknot, where it is the smallest member of the unknot grid family. Here we combine that small-grid API with the integer grading API to compute the two generators' Maslov and Alexander gradings in this concrete diagram, and package the diagram with its odd-component witness.

Main definitions #

Main results #

References #

This supplies a small prerequisite for TauCetiRoadmap/CombinatorialHeegaardFloer/README.md, Lane G.3, "The complexes and ∂² = 0", and the acceptance criterion that grid homology compute on the 2 × 2 unknot grid with its bigradings. The grid and grading conventions follow Ozsváth--Stipsicz--Szabó, Grid Homology for Knots and Links, Chapters 3 and 4.

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The standard two-by-two diagram has O markings at (0,0) and (1,1).

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The standard two-by-two diagram has X markings at (0,1) and (1,0).

In a 2 × 2 diagram, the integer X-Maslov grading of the O-marking state vanishes.

In a 2 × 2 diagram, the integer O-Maslov grading of the X-marking state vanishes.

Twice the Alexander grading of the O-marking state in a 2 × 2 diagram is -2.

Twice the Alexander grading of the X-marking state in a 2 × 2 diagram is 0.

The Alexander grading of the O-marking state in a 2 × 2 diagram is -1.

The Alexander grading of the X-marking state in a 2 × 2 diagram is 0.

The integer O-Maslov grading of the identity generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is -1.

The integer X-Maslov grading of the identity generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is 0.

Twice the Alexander grading of the identity generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is -2.

The Alexander grading of the identity generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is -1.

The integer O-Maslov grading of the transposition generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is 0.

The integer X-Maslov grading of the transposition generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is -1.

Twice the Alexander grading of the transposition generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is 0.

The Alexander grading of the transposition generator in the standard two-by-two diagram is 0.

Every generator of an arbitrary 2 × 2 diagram has Alexander grading -1 or 0.

Every generator of the standard two-by-two diagram has one of the two computed Alexander gradings.

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The standard 2 × 2 unknot grid diagram, as an odd-component grid diagram: it presents a knot, so its component count is one.

Instances For
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    The identity generator in the standard two-by-two diagram has bidegree (-1, -1).

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    The transposition generator in the standard two-by-two diagram has bidegree (0, 0).