Khovanov homology detects the Hopf links
Geometric Topology
2019-12-02 v1
Abstract
We prove that any link in whose Khovanov homology is the same as that of a Hopf link must be isotopic to that Hopf link. This holds for both reduced and unreduced Khovanov homology, and with coefficients in either or .
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@article{arxiv.1810.05040,
title = {Khovanov homology detects the Hopf links},
author = {John A. Baldwin and Steven Sivek and Yi Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05040},
year = {2019}
}
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6 pages