Exotic 4-manifolds and Khovanov-Lipshitz-Sarkar homotopy type
Abstract
We introduce a new diffeomorphism invariant of smooth compact oriented 4-manifolds with a framed oriented 1-link in the boundary, where may be the empty set, and call it {\it Khovanov-Lipshitz-Sarkar skein lasagna homotopy type} or {\it KLS lasagna homotopy type} . Our invariant assigns to a smooth structure a stable homotopy type of a CW complex. Our new invariant is not weaker than KR lasagna module, which were defined by Morrison, Walker and Wedrich. For a pair such that , our new invariant, KLS lasagna homotopy type, is stronger than the Khovanov-Rozansky skein lasagna modules or KR lasagna modules.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.13462,
title = {Exotic 4-manifolds and Khovanov-Lipshitz-Sarkar homotopy type},
author = {Louis H. Kauffman and Igor M. Nikonov and Eiji Ogasa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13462},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Theorem 2.1.(2) needs a more gentle proof. The citation in the second paragraph is probably not enough. Therefore the main result may be dubious now. We must think about them