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In this paper, we study the Khovanov homology of cable links. We first estimate the maximal homological degree term of the Khovanov homology of the ($2k+1$, $(2k+1)n$)-torus link and give a lower bound of its homological thickness.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Keiji Tagami

We construct a new spectral sequence beginning at the Khovanov homology of a link and converging to the Khovanov homology of the disjoint union of its components. The page at which the sequence collapses gives a lower bound on the splitting…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Joshua Batson , Cotton Seed

The 3-strand pretzel knots and links are a well-studied source of examples in knot theory. However, while there have been computations of the Khovanov homology of some sub-families of 3-strand pretzel knots, no general formula has been…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Andrew Manion

We prove that a knot is the unknot if and only if its reduced Khovanov cohomology has rank 1. The proof has two steps. We show first that there is a spectral sequence beginning with the reduced Khovanov cohomology and abutting to a knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-25 P. B. Kronheimer , T. S. Mrowka

This paper is devoted to the study of algebraic structures leading to link homology theories. The originally used structures of Frobenius algebra and/or TQFT are modified in two directions. First, we refine 2-dimensional cobordisms by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Anna Beliakova , Emmanuel Wagner

A well-known conjecture states that for any $l$-component link $L$ in $S^3$, the rank of the knot Floer homology of $L$ (over any field) is less than or equal to $2^{l-1}$ times the rank of the reduced Khovanov homology of $L$. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-22 John A. Baldwin , Adam Simon Levine , Sucharit Sarkar

Torsion sensitive intersection homology was introduced to unify several versions of Poincare duality for stratified spaces into a single theorem. This unified duality theorem holds with ground coefficients in an arbitrary PID and with no…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Greg Friedman

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

We describe the integral equivariant cohomology ring of a weighted projective space in terms of piecewise polynomials, and thence by generators and relations. We deduce that the ring is a perfect invariant, and prove a Chern class formula…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-15 Anthony Bahri , Matthias Franz , Nigel Ray

Gonz\'alez-Meneses, Manch\'on, and Silvero showed that the (hypothetical) extreme Khovanov homology of a link diagram is isomorphic to the reduced (co)homology of the independence simplicial complex of its Lando graph. Przytycki and Silvero…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jinseok Oh , Mark H. Siggers , Seung Yeop Yang , Hongdae Yun

We introduce and explore the relation between knot invariants and quiver representation theory, which follows from the identification of quiver quantum mechanics in D-brane systems representing knots. We identify various structural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 Piotr Kucharski , Markus Reineke , Marko Stosic , Piotr Sułkowski

We introduce a new version of symplectic annular Khovanov homology and establish spectral sequences from (i) the symplectic annular Khovanov homology of a knot to the link Floer homology of the lift of the annular axis in the double…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Kristen Hendricks , Cheuk Yu Mak , Sriram Raghunath

We develop a space-level formulation of Khovanov skein homology by constructing a stable homotopy type for annular links. We explicitly define a cover functor from the skein flow category to the cube flow category, thereby establishing the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Nilangshu Bhattacharyya , Adithyan Pandikkadan

Using the relation between Khovanov homology and the Heegaard Floer homology of branched double covers, we show how Khovanov homology can be used to establish tightness of branched double covers of certain transverse knots. We give examples…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-19 Olga Plamenevskaya

In this paper we define the 1,2-coloured HOMFLY-PT link homology and prove that it is a link invariant. We conjecture that this homology categorifies the coloured HOMFLY-PT polynomial for links whose components are labelled 1 or 2.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Marco Mackaay , Marko Stosic , Pedro Vaz

M. Khovanov and L. Rozansky gave a categorification of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial. This study is a generalization of the Khovanov-Rozansky homology. We define a homology associated to the quantum $(sl_n,\land V_n)$ link invariant, where…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Yasuyoshi Yonezawa

Khovanov homology is a powerful invariant of oriented links that categorifies the Jones polynomial. Nevertheless, computing Khovanov homology of a given link remains challenging in general with current techniques. In this work we focus on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Álvaro Del Valle Vílchez , Juan González-Meneses , Marithania Silvero

Given any oriented link diagram, one can construct knot invariants using skein relations. Usually such a skein relation contains three or four terms. In this paper, the author introduces several new ways to smooth a crossings, and uses a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Zhiqing Yang

In a previous work, we defined an unoriented skein exact triangle in unoriented link Floer homology. In this paper, we iterate a modified version of this exact triangle and obtain a spectral sequence from various versions of Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Gheehyun Nahm

We consider an algebra of (classical or virtual) tangles over an ordered circuit operad and introduce Conway-type invariants of tangles which respect this algebraic structure. The resulting invariants contain both the coefficients of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Michael Polyak