Divisibility of Lee's class and its relation with Rasmussen's invariant
Abstract
Lee homology (a variant of Khovanov homology) over possesses the "canonical generators" as its basis. The generators (Lee's classes) are constructed combinatorially from an oriented link diagram , one for each alternative orientation on . Let be an integral domain. There exists a family of link homology theory , where Khovanov's theory corresponds to and Lee's theory corresponds to . For each , Lee's classes can be defined as elements in , but when is not invertible then they do not form a basis; in fact they are divisible by -powers. We define the -divisibility of with the given orientation of . For any link and its diagram , we prove that is a link invariant, where is the writhe, and is the number of Seifert circles. We pose the question whether coincides with Rasmussen's -invariant. There are several evidences that support the affirmative answer. For instance, is a link concordance invariant, and the Milnor conjecture can be reproved using . Also for the special case , our actually coincides with as knot invariants.
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@article{arxiv.1812.10258,
title = {Divisibility of Lee's class and its relation with Rasmussen's invariant},
author = {Taketo Sano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10258},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This paper is based on the master's thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo