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Skein lasagna modules for 2-handlebodies

Geometric Topology 2022-03-24 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Morrison, Walker, and Wedrich used the blob complex to construct a generalization of Khovanov-Rozansky homology to links in the boundary of a 4-manifold. The degree zero part of their theory, called the skein lasagna module, admits an elementary definition in terms of certain diagrams in the 4-manifold. We give a description of the skein lasagna module for 4-manifolds without 1- and 3-handles, and present some explicit calculations for disk bundles over S2S^2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.08520,
  title  = {Skein lasagna modules for 2-handlebodies},
  author = {Ciprian Manolescu and Ikshu Neithalath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08520},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

35 pages; final version, to appear in Crelle's Journal

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