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Lobb observed in [arXiv:1103.1412] that each equivariant sl(N) Khovanov-Rozansky homology over C[a] admits a standard decomposition of a simple form. In the present paper, we derive a formula for the corresponding Lee-Gornik spectral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Hao Wu

X.-S. Lin and Z. Wang recently made a conjecture concerning the integrality of the Taylor coefficients of the averaged Jones polynomial of algebraically split links. This question is related to a conjectural integrality result for the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2021-09-29 H. U. Boden

We present the $CWR$ invariant, a new invariant for alternating links, which builds upon and generalizes the $WRP$ invariant. The $CWR$ invariant is an array of two-variable polynomials that provides a stronger invariant compared to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Michal Jablonowski

We prove analogues of the fundamental theorem of algebraic K-theory for the second and third homology of SL_2 over an infinite field k. The statements involve Milnor-Witt K-theory and scissors congruence groups. We use these results to…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Kevin Hutchinson

We extend the definition of the colored Jones polynomials to framed links and trivalent graphs in S^3 # k S^2 X S^1 using a state-sum formulation based on Turaev's shadows. Then, we prove that the natural extension of the Volume Conjecture…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francesco Costantino

In~\cite{Kim} the author generalized the Conway algebra and constructed the invariant valued in the generalized Conway algebra defined by applying two skein relations to crossings, which is called a generalized Conway type invariant. The…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Seongjeong Kim

We define a bigraded homology theory whose Euler characteristic is the quantum sl(3) link invariant.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Mikhail Khovanov

Given a finite dimensional representation of a semisimple Lie algebra there are two ways of constructing link invariants: 1) quantum group invariants using the R-matrix, 2) the Kontsevich universal link invariant followed by the Lie algebra…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Nathan Geer

We use deep neural networks to machine learn correlations between knot invariants in various dimensions. The three-dimensional invariant of interest is the Jones polynomial $J(q)$, and the four-dimensional invariants are the Khovanov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Jessica Craven , Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar

We define an annular concordance invariant and study its properties. When specialized to braids, this invariant gives bounds on band rank. We introduce a modified chain complex to reformulate the invariant. Then, by focusing on a special…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Apratim Chakraborty

The slope conjecture gives a precise relation between the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot and the boundary slopes of essential surfaces in the knot complement. In this note we propose a generalization of the slope…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Roland van der Veen

Following the approach to grid homology of links in $S^3$, we prove combinatorially that the grid homology of links in lens spaces defined by Baker, Grigsby, and Hedden is a link invariant. Further, using the sign assignment defined by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Samuel Tripp

The colored Jones polynomial of links has two natural normalizations: one in which the n-colored unknot evaluates to [n+1], the quantum dimension of the (n+1)-dimensional irreducible representation of quantum sl(2), and the other in which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Khovanov

Given any unoriented link diagram, a group of new knot invariants are constructed. Each of them satisfies a generalized 4 term skein relation. The coefficients of each invariant is from a commutative ring. Homomorphisms and representations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-14 Zhiqing Yang , Jifu Xiao

The ``Links-Gould invariant'' is a two-variable Laurent polynomial invariant of oriented (1,1) tangles, which is derived from the representation of the braid generator associated with the one-parameter family of four dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David De Wit

We introduce the $SU(N)$ Casson-Lin invariants for links $L$ in $S^3$ with more than one component. Writing $L = \ell_1 \cup \cdots \cup \ell_n$, we require as input an $n$-tuple $(a_1,\ldots, a_n) \in {\mathbb Z}^n$ of labels, where $a_j$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Hans U. Boden , Eric Harper

We introduce the (general) homotopy groups of spheres as link invariants for Brunnian-type links through the investigations on the intersection subgroup of the normal closures of the meridians of strongly nonsplittable links. The homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-04 Jie Wu

We construct geometrically a universal Jones invariant as a limit of invariants given by graded intersections in configuration spaces. For any fixed level $\mathscr N$, we define a new knot invariant, called ``$\mathscr N^{th}$ Unified…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel

We construct knot invariants categorifying the quantum knot variants for all representations of quantum groups. We show that these invariants coincide with previous invariants defined by Khovanov for sl_2 and sl_3 and by Mazorchuk-Stroppel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ben Webster

We consider knotted annuli in 4-space, called 2-string-links, which are knotted surfaces in codimension two that are naturally related, via closure operations, to both 2-links and 2-torus links. We classify 2-string-links up to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Benjamin Audoux , Jean-Baptiste Meilhan , Emmanuel Wagner