Homotopy functoriality for Khovanov spectra
Geometric Topology
2025-07-08 v3 Algebraic Topology
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We prove that the Khovanov spectra associated to links and tangles are functorial up to homotopy and sign.
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@article{arxiv.2104.12907,
title = {Homotopy functoriality for Khovanov spectra},
author = {Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz and Sucharit Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12907},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
45 pages, 6 figures. V2: add discussion of neck cutting and ribbon concordances. V3: minor revisions. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Topology