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Lipshitz--Sarkar stable homotopy type for certain planar trivalent graphs with perfect matchings

Geometric Topology 2025-08-19 v1

Abstract

We develop a space-level refinement of the 22-factor homology by constructing a stable homotopy type associated to a certain family G\mathscr{G} of planar trivalent graphs equipped with perfect matchings. Specifically, we define a cover functor from the 22-factor flow category C(ΓM)\mathscr{C}(\Gamma_{M}) to the cube flow category CC(n)\mathscr{C}_{C}(n), where the perfect matching graph ΓM\Gamma_{M} represents a planar trivalent graph GG together with a perfect matching MM, such that (G,M)G(G,M) \in \mathscr{G}. By applying the Cohen--Jones--Segal realization to the 22-factor flow category C(ΓM)\mathscr{C}(\Gamma_{M}), we obtain the 22-factor spectrum. This spectrum serves as a space-level version of the 22-factor homology, analogous to the Lipshitz--Sarkar Khovanov spectrum for links. We show that the cohomology of the 22-factor spectrum with Z2\mathbb{Z}_{2}-coefficients is isomorphic to the 22-factor homology, as defined by Baldridge. We prove that the stable homotopy type of the 22-factor spectrum is an invariant of planar trivalent graphs GG equipped with perfect matchings MM, whenever (G,M)G(G, M) \in \mathscr{G}. Furthermore, we show that the closed webs obtained by performing flattenings at each crossing of an oriented link diagram in the context of sl3\mathfrak{sl}_{3} link homology belong to the family G\mathscr{G}.

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@article{arxiv.2508.12272,
  title  = {Lipshitz--Sarkar stable homotopy type for certain planar trivalent graphs with perfect matchings},
  author = {Nilangshu Bhattacharyya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.12272},
  year   = {2025}
}

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47 pages, 44 figures