English

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 JJ^\sharp from a category of webs in R3\mathbb{R}^3 to the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces over the field of two elements. They also suggested a possible combinatorial replacement JJ^\flat for JJ^\sharp, 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 JJ^\sharp to the subcategory of planar webs is not the same as JJ^\flat.

Keywords

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}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:07:13.418Z