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A remark on Khovanov homology and two-fold branched covers

Geometric Topology 2009-07-14 v2

Abstract

Examples of knots and links distinguished by the total rank of their Khovanov homology but sharing the same two-fold branched cover are given. As a result, Khovanov homology does not yield an invariant of two-fold branched covers.

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@article{arxiv.0808.2797,
  title  = {A remark on Khovanov homology and two-fold branched covers},
  author = {Liam Watson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2797},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures. Version 2 corrects an error; the source includes a Mathematica notebook for the calculations in the paper