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Khovanov multicurves are linear

Geometric Topology 2022-02-04 v1 Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In previous work we introduced a Khovanov multicurve invariant Kh~\operatorname{\widetilde{Kh}} associated with Conway tangles. Applying ideas from homological mirror symmetry we show that Kh~\operatorname{\widetilde{Kh}} is subject to strong geography restrictions: Every component of the invariant is linear, in the sense that it admits a lift to a curve homotopic to a straight line in an appropriate planar cover of the tangle boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2202.01460,
  title  = {Khovanov multicurves are linear},
  author = {Artem Kotelskiy and Liam Watson and Claudius Zibrowius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01460},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

41 pages, many colour figures. The contents of this paper used to be part of arXiv:2105.06308

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