Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2007-02-17
Algebraic & Geomertic Topology 8 (2008) 603-608
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
4 pages, n=0 case corrected
Scientific paper
10.2140/agt.2008.8.603
Let K be a knot in S^3 of genus g and let n>0. We show that if rk HFK(K,g) < 2^{n+1} (where HFK denotes knot Floer homology), in particular if K is an alternating knot such that the leading coefficient a_g of its Alexander polynomial satisfies |a_g| <2^{n+1}, then K has at most n pairwise disjoint non-isotopic genus g Seifert surfaces. For n=1 this implies that K has a unique minimal genus Seifert surface up to isotopy.
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