The combinatorial and gauge-theoretic foam evaluation functors are not the same
Geometric Topology
2023-04-18 v1
Abstract
Kronheimer and Mrowka used gauge theory to define a functor from a category of webs in to the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces over the field of two elements. They also suggested a possible combinatorial replacement for , which Khovanov and Robert proved is well-defined on a subcategory of planar webs. We exhibit a counterexample that shows the restriction of the functor to the subcategory of planar webs is not the same as .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2304.07659,
title = {The combinatorial and gauge-theoretic foam evaluation functors are not the same},
author = {David Boozer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07659},
year = {2023}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures