Second-to-Top Term of HFK of Closed 3-Braids
Abstract
In this paper, we use the skein exact sequence and other techniques to compute the second-to-top term of HFK of closed 3-braids. We do it case-by-case according to Xu's classification. We also verify the rank inequality conjectured by Sivek.
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