Lipshitz--Sarkar stable homotopy type for certain planar trivalent graphs with perfect matchings
Abstract
We develop a space-level refinement of the -factor homology by constructing a stable homotopy type associated to a certain family of planar trivalent graphs equipped with perfect matchings. Specifically, we define a cover functor from the -factor flow category to the cube flow category , where the perfect matching graph represents a planar trivalent graph together with a perfect matching , such that . By applying the Cohen--Jones--Segal realization to the -factor flow category , we obtain the -factor spectrum. This spectrum serves as a space-level version of the -factor homology, analogous to the Lipshitz--Sarkar Khovanov spectrum for links. We show that the cohomology of the -factor spectrum with -coefficients is isomorphic to the -factor homology, as defined by Baldridge. We prove that the stable homotopy type of the -factor spectrum is an invariant of planar trivalent graphs equipped with perfect matchings , whenever . Furthermore, we show that the closed webs obtained by performing flattenings at each crossing of an oriented link diagram in the context of link homology belong to the family .
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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