The Bar-Natan Theory Splits
Geometric Topology
2015-08-26 v1
Abstract
We show that over the binary field , the Bar-Natan perturbation of Khovanov homology splits as the direct sum of its two reduced theories, which we also prove are isomorphic. This extends Shumakovitch's analogous result for ordinary Khovanov homology, without the perturbation.
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@article{arxiv.1508.05982,
title = {The Bar-Natan Theory Splits},
author = {Yuval Wigderson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05982},
year = {2015}
}