Earrings, sutures and pointed links
Geometric Topology
2018-09-26 v1
Abstract
We prove a rank inequality on the instanton knot homology and the Khovanov homology of a link in . The key step of the proof is to construct a spectral sequence relating Baldwin-Levine-Sarkar's pointed Khovanov homology to a singular instanton invariant for pointed links.
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@article{arxiv.1809.09254,
title = {Earrings, sutures and pointed links},
author = {Yi Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09254},
year = {2018}
}
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20 pages, 3 figures