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We define a homology theory of virtual links built out of the direct sum of the standard Khovanov complex with itself, motivating the name doubled Khovanov homology. We demonstrate that it can be used to show that some virtual links are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 William Rushworth

We give a purely combinatorial construction of colored $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ link homology. The invariant takes values in a 2-category where 2-morphisms are given by foams, singular cobordisms between $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ webs; applying a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Hoel Queffelec , David E. V. Rose

In this paper we use colored sl(N)-matrix factorizations, due to Wu and Y.Y., in order to categorify part of the quantum skew Howe duality defined by Cautis, Kamnitzer and Morrison. In particular, we define web categories and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-11-07 Marco Mackaay , Yasuyoshi Yonezawa

Khovanov homology offers a nontrivial generalization of Jones polynomial of links in R^3 (and of Kauffman bracket skein module of some 3-manifolds). In this chapter (Chapter X) we define Khovanov homology of links in R^3 and generalize the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jozef H. Przytycki

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to lay the foundations of Algebraic Geometry in homotopical and higher categorical contexts (for part II, see math.AG/0404373). In this first part we investigate a notion of higher topos. For…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Toen , Gabriele Vezzosi

We describe a strategy for constructing reduced Khovanov homology for links in lens spaces by generalizing a symplectic interpretation of reduced Khovanov homology for links in $S^3$ due to Hedden, Herald, Hogancamp, and Kirk. The strategy…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-01 David Boozer

These notes are based on the three lectures that one of the authors gave at Tsinghua University in the summer of 2023 as part of the workshop on Geometric Representation Theory and Applications. They contain an introduction to the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Mikhail Khovanov , Dmitry Solovyev

We follow the same technics we used before in \cite{AZ} of extending knot Floer homology to embedded graphs in a 3-manifold, by using the Kauffman topological invariant of embedded graphs by associating family of links and knots to a such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry

For every oriented surface of finite type, we construct a functorial Khovanov homology for links in a thickening of the surface, which takes values in a categorification of the corresponding gl(2) skein module. The latter is a mild…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Hoel Queffelec , Paul Wedrich

We examine the theory of connective algebraic K-theory, CK, defined by taking the -1 connective cover of algebraic K-theory with respect to Voevodsky's slice tower in the motivic stable homotopy category. We extend CK to a bi-graded…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Shouxin Dai , Marc Levine

We construct a faithful categorical action of the type $B$ braid group on the bounded homotopy category of finitely generated projective modules over a finite dimensional algebra which we call the type $B$ zigzag algebra. This categorical…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Kie Seng Nge

We arrange morphisms and comorphisms of sites as the horizontal and vertical cells of a double category of sites; using the formalism of extensions and restrictions of presheaves, we explains how one can define a sheafification double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Olivia Caramello , Axel Osmond

We give a fresh introduction to the Khovanov Homology theory for knots and links, with special emphasis on its extension to tangles, cobordisms and 2-knots. By staying within a world of topological pictures a little longer than in other…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Dror Bar-Natan

In this paper we consider the classification of minimal cellular structures of spaces of topological complexity two under some hypotheses on there graded cohomological algebra. This continues the method used by M.Grant et al. in [1].

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-27 A. Boudjaj , Y. Rami

Link homology theories (such as knot Floer homology and Khovanov homology) have become indispensable tools for studying knots and links, including powerful 4-dimensional obstructions. These notes, based on lectures given at the 2024 Georgia…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Kyle Hayden

This thesis is devoted to the fields of quantum topology and rewriting theory, and their surprising interconnections. In the first part of the thesis, we develop a higher representation theoretic approach to odd Khovanov homology; this is…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Léo Schelstraete

This is the author's diploma thesis. We describe a simplification in the construction of Khovanov-Rozansky's categorification of quantum sl(n) link homology using the theory of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over hypersurface singularities…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Hanno Becker

Khovanov homology, an invariant of links in $\mathbb{R}^3$, is a graded homology theory that categorifies the Jones polynomial in the sense that the graded Euler characteristic of the homology is the Jones polynomial. Asaeda, Przytycki and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Boštjan Gabrovšek

By adding or removing appropriate structures to Gauss diagram, one can create useful objects related to virtual links. In this paper few objects of this kind are studied: twisted virtual links generalizing virtual links; signed chord…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg Viro

We establish a direct map between refined topological vertex and sl(N) homological invariants of the of Hopf link, which include Khovanov-Rozansky homology as a special case. This relation provides an exact answer for homological invariants…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergei Gukov , Amer Iqbal , Can Kozcaz , Cumrun Vafa