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TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.Stabilization.Reduction

Stabilization invariance reduced to a comparison modulo the variables #

Let G be a grid diagram of size n, let s be a column, and let G' = G.stabilizeX s.castSucc (G.X s).castSucc s be the stabilization splitting the X-marking of column s. Write S = R[V₀, …, V_n] for the coefficient ring of GC⁻(G'). By TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.Stabilization.Map.Basic, the comparison map GC⁻(G') ⟶ GC⁻(G) is a quasi-isomorphism as soon as the component H_I^N : N ⟶ I of the X₂-homotopy, from the off-center complex N to the center complex I, is one. This file reduces that remaining hypothesis to a statement in which every variable is set to zero.

Both N and I are free S-modules on finitely many grid states of G', and their differentials and H_I^N count empty rectangles weighted by the monomials V^{O(r)}. Giving each variable the weight -2, the matrix coefficient between two states x and y is weighted homogeneous of degree M_O(x) - 1 - M_O(y), for M_O the O-Maslov grading of G' (GridDiagram.isWeightedHomogeneous_sum_OMonomial). The graded Nakayama argument of TauCeti.Algebra.Homology.ReductionModVariables therefore applies: H_I^N is a quasi-isomorphism if its reduction modulo the variables V₀, …, V_n, LinearMap.constantCoeffReduction, induces a bijection between the homologies of the reductions of the two differentials (quasiIso_stabilizeXOffCenterToCenterHom_of_bijective).

The two reduced differentials give R-linear fully blocked rectangle-count complexes. The reduction of the center differential counts the fully blocked rectangles of G, so over R = ZMod 2 its complex agrees with the library's fully blocked complex of G (constantCoeffReduction_stabilizeXCenterDifferential_eq_fullyBlockedDifferential). The reduction of the off-center differential counts the fully blocked rectangles of G' between off-center states (constantCoeffReduction_stabilizeXOffCenterDifferential_single_apply). The reduction of H_I^N counts the empty rectangles from an off-center state to a center state with no O-marking and whose only X-marking is X₂ (constantCoeffReduction_stabilizeXOffCenterToCenter_single_apply). That this reduced comparison induces a bijection on homology is the combinatorial content of stabilization invariance, proved in TauCeti.KnotTheory.Grid.Stabilization.Comparison.

Main results #

References #

The fully blocked comparison map is the one of Ozsváth--Stipsicz--Szabó, Grid Homology for Knots and Links, Section 5.2; the passage between the fully blocked and the unblocked theory is the graded algebra of its Appendix A.

The O-Maslov grading of the two blocks #

The center differential lowers the O-Maslov grading of the stabilization by one: with every variable of weight -2, its matrix coefficient from x to y is weighted homogeneous of degree M_O(x') - 1 - M_O(y'), for x' and y' the states of the stabilization containing the center of the new block.

The off-center differential lowers the O-Maslov grading of the stabilization by one.

The component H_I^N of the X₂-homotopy lowers the O-Maslov grading of the stabilization by one: like the differential, it counts empty rectangles weighted by their O-markings.

The reductions modulo the variables #

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Setting the variables to zero leaves the center projection as coefficient restriction.

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Setting the variables to zero leaves the off-center projection as coefficient restriction.

The reduction of the center differential modulo the variables counts the fully blocked rectangles of G: over ZMod 2 it is the fully blocked differential of G.

The reduction of the off-center differential modulo the variables counts the fully blocked rectangles of the stabilization between off-center states.

The reduction of H_I^N modulo the variables counts the empty rectangles of the stabilization from an off-center state to a center state that carry no O-marking and whose only X-marking is the southeast X-marking X₂ of the new block.

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Over ZMod 2, the reduced center differential is the fully blocked differential of G.

H_I^N is a quasi-isomorphism if its reduced comparison is. If the reduction of H_I^N modulo the variables induces a bijection from the homology of the reduced off-center complex to the homology of the reduced center complex, the R-linear fully blocked rectangle-count homology of G (the library's fully blocked homology when R = ZMod 2), then H_I^N is a quasi-isomorphism of complexes over R[V₀, …, V_n].