Fibered links whose monodromy twists many times around a boundary component have large next-to-top link Floer homology, and braid closures with large fractional Dehn twist coefficient have large annular Khovanov homology.
Khovanov homology detects the trefoils
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We prove that Khovanov homology detects the trefoils. Our proof incorporates an array of ideas in Floer homology and contact geometry. It uses open books; the contact invariants we defined in the instanton Floer setting; a bypass exact triangle in sutured instanton homology, proven here; and Kronheimer and Mrowka's spectral sequence relating Khovanov homology with singular instanton knot homology. As a byproduct, we also strengthen a result of Kronheimer and Mrowka on $SU(2)$ representations of the knot group.
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Fractional Dehn twist coefficients and rank bounds for categorified link invariants
Fibered links whose monodromy twists many times around a boundary component have large next-to-top link Floer homology, and braid closures with large fractional Dehn twist coefficient have large annular Khovanov homology.