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We note that our stable homotopy refinements of Khovanov's arc algebras and tangle invariants induce refinements of Chen-Khovanov and Stroppel's platform algebras and tangle invariants, and discuss the topological Hochschild homology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Tyler Lawson , Robert Lipshitz , Sucharit Sarkar

The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, we give a fully geometric description of the HOMFLYPT homology of Khovanov-Rozansky. Our method is to construct this invariant in terms of the cohomology of various sheaves on certain algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ben Webster , Geordie Williamson

Twisted Alexander invariants of knots are well-defined up to multiplication of units. We get rid of this multiplicative ambiguity via a combinatorial method and define normalized twisted Alexander invariants. We then show that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Takahiro Kitayama

In 1999, Khovanov showed that a link invariant known as the Jones polynomial is the Euler characteristic of a homology theory. The knot categorification problem is to find a general construction of knot homology groups, and to explain their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Mina Aganagic

We give an alternative presentation of Khovanov homology of links with strict functoriality result over integers. The construction uses an oriented $sl(2)$ state model allowing a natural definition of the boundary operator as twisted action…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Christian Blanchet

We study Khovanov homology over the Frobenius algebra $\mathbb{F}[U,V,X]/((X-U)(X-V))$, or $U(1) \times U(1)$-equivariant Khovanov homology, and extract two families of concordance invariants using the algebraic $U$-power and $V$-power…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Rostislav Akhmechet , Melissa Zhang

We review the construction and context of a stable homotopy refinement of Khovanov homology.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Robert Lipshitz , Sucharit Sarkar

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

The Jones polynomial is a famous link invariant that can be defined diagrammatically via a skein relation. Khovanov homology is a richer link invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial. Using spectral sequences, we obtain a skein-type…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Maria Chlouveraki , Dimos Goundaroulis , Aristides Kontogeorgis , Sofia Lambropoulou

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

We determine a wide class of knots, which includes unknotting number one knots, within which Khovanov homology detects the unknot. A corollary is that the Khovanov homology of many satellite knots, including the Whitehead double, detects…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-05-30 Matthew Hedden , Liam Watson

In "Homfly polynomial via an invariant of colored plane graphs", Murakami, Ohtsuki, and Yamada provide a state-sum description of the level $n$ Jones polynomial of an oriented link in terms of a suitable braided monoidal category whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Domenico Fiorenza , Omid Hurson

We use the divide-and-conquer and scanning algorithms for calculating Khovanov cohomology directly on the Lee- or Bar-Natan deformations of the Khovanov complex to give an alternative way to compute Rasmussen $s$-invariants of knots. By…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Dirk Schuetz

We exhibit an infinite family of knots with isomorphic knot Heegaard Floer homology. Each knot in this infinite family admits a nontrivial genus two mutant which shares the same total dimension in both knot Floer homology and Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Allison Moore , Laura Starkston

This paper gives new and elementary combinatorial topological proofs of the classification of unoriented and oriented rational knots and links. These proofs are based on the known classification of alternating knots through flyping, and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

We consider an analogue of well-known Casson knot invariant for knotoids. We start with a direct analogue of the classical construction which gives two different integer-valued knotoid invariants and then focus on its homology extension.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Vladimir Tarkaev

We modify our previous construction of link homology in order to include a natural duality functor $\mathfrak{F}$. To a link $L$ we associate a triply-graded module $HXY(L)$ over the graded polynomial ring…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Alexei Oblomkov , Lev Rozansky

We trade matrix factorizations and Koszul complexes for Hochschild homology of Soergel bimodules to modify the construction of triply-graded link homology and relate it to Kazhdan-Lusztig theory.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Mikhail Khovanov

Using derived categories of equivariant coherent sheaves, we construct a categorification of the tangle calculus associated to sl(2) and its standard representation. Our construction is related to that of Seidel-Smith by homological mirror…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-17 Sabin Cautis , Joel Kamnitzer

We construct an endomorphism of the Khovanov invariant to prove H-thinness and pairing phenomena of the invariants for alternating links. As a consequence, it follows that the Khovanov invariant of an oriented nonsplit alternating link is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eun Soo Lee