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The Turaev surface of a link diagram $D$ is a closed, oriented surface constructed from a cobordism between the all-$A$ and all-$B$ Kauffman states of $D$. The Turaev genus of a link $L$ is the minimum genus of the Turaev surface of any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Theo Beldon , Mia DeStefano , Adam M. Lowrance , Wyatt Milgrim , Cecilia Villaseñor

In [Duke Math. J. 101 (1999) 359-426], Mikhail Khovanov constructed a homology theory for oriented links, whose graded Euler characteristic is the Jones polynomial. He also explained how every link cobordism between two links induces a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Magnus Jacobsson

Mikhail Khovanov in math.QA/9908171 defined, for a diagram of an oriented classical link, a collection of groups numerated by pairs of integers. These groups were constructed as homology groups of certain chain complexes. The Euler…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg Viro

Khovanov homology is an invariant for links in the three sphere that categorizes the Jones polynomial. We extend Khovanov's construction to links in 3-manifolds that are connected sums of orientable interval bundles over surfaces. Cutting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Alan Du

In this paper, we discuss a proof of the isotopy invariance of a parametrized Khovanov link homology including categorifications of the Jones polynomial and the Kauffman bracket polynomial though it is a known fact. In order to present a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Noboru Ito

In this thesis we work with Khovanov homology of links and its generalizations, as well as with the homology of graphs. Khovanov homology of links consists of graded chain complexes which are link invariants, up to chain homotopy, with…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Marko Stosic

From the very beginning the Khovanov homology appears to be one of the most important invariant of knots; for computational and theoretical reasons it would be useful to operate with reduced version of it - nevertheless the definition given…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Wojciech Lubawski

We prove that the Khovanov homology of alternating knots and 2-component links is equal (as a singly graded group) to the singular homology of a certain space of trace- free, binary dihedral representations of the link group. More…

General Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-20 Sam Lewallen

By defining combinatorial moves, we can define an equivalence relation on Gauss words called homotopy. In this paper we define a homotopy invariant of Gauss words. We use this to show that there exist Gauss words that are not homotopically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Andrew Gibson

We show that the generalized Khovanov homology, defined by the second author in the framework of chronological cobordisms, admits a grading by the group $\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}_2$, in which all homogeneous summands are isomorphic to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Wojciech Lubawski , Krzysztof K. Putyra

Khovanov homology is a recently introduced invariant of oriented links in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It categorifies the Jones polynomial in the sense that the (graded) Euler characteristic of the Khovanov homology is a version of the Jones polynomial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Alexander N. Shumakovitch

The paper contains an essentially self-contained treatment of Khovanov homology, Khovanov-Lee homology as well as the Rasmussen invariant for virtual knots and virtual knot cobordisms which directly applies to classical knot and classical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Heather A. Dye , Aaron Kaestner , Louis H. Kauffman

For every positive integer $n$ we construct a bigraded homology theory for links, such that the corresponding invariant of the unknot is closely related to the U(n)-equivariant cohomology ring of $\mathbb{CP}^{n-1}$; our construction…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Daniel Krasner

In this paper, we describe a canopolis (i.e. categorified planar algebra) formalism for Khovanov and Rozansky's link homology theory. We show how this allows us to organize simplifications in the matrix factorizations appearing in their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Ben Webster

For each positive integer n, Khovanov and Rozansky constructed an invariant of links in the form of a doubly-graded cohomology theory whose Euler characteristic is the sl(n) link polynomial. We use Lagrangian Floer cohomology on some…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ciprian Manolescu

Anstee, Przyticki and Rolfsen introduced the idea of rotants, pairs of links related by a generalised form of link mutation. We exhibit infinitely many pairs of rotants which can be distinguished by Khovanov homology, but not by the Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Joseph MacColl

We introduce colored Jones polynomials of nanowords and their categorification. We also prove the existence of a Khovanov-type bicomplex which has three grades.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Noboru Ito

We conjecture a relation between the sl(N) knot homology, recently introduced by Khovanov and Rozansky, and the spectrum of BPS states captured by open topological strings. This conjecture leads to new regularities among the sl(N) knot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei Gukov , Albert Schwarz , Cumrun Vafa

We show that the unnormalised Khovanov homology of an oriented link can be identified with the derived functors of the inverse limit. This leads to a homotopy theoretic interpretation of Khovanov homology.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Brent Everitt , Paul Turner

Beliakova-Putyra-Wehrli studied various kinds of traces, in relation to annular Khovanov homology. In particular, to a graded algebra and a graded bimodule over it, they associate a quantum Hochschild homology of the algebra with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Robert Lipshitz