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The Reidemeister torsion construction can be applied to the chain complex used to compute the Khovanov homology of a knot or a link. This defines a volume form on Khovanov homology. The volume form transforms correctly under Reidemeister…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Juan Ortiz-Navarro

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

We modify the definition of the Khovanov complex for oriented links in a thickening of an oriented surface to obtain a triply graded homological link invariant with a new homotopical grading.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Vassily Olegovich Manturov , Igor Nikonov

We show if $L$ is any link in $S^3$ whose Khovanov homology is isomorphic to the Khovanov homology of $T(2,6)$ then $L$ is isotopic to $T(2,6)$. We show this for unreduced Khovanov homology with $\mathbb{Z}$ coefficients.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Gage Martin

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 present an easy example of mutant links with different Khovanov homology. The existence of such an example is important because it shows that Khovanov homology cannot be defined with a skein rule similar to the skein relation for the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephan M. Wehrli

We introduce an invariant of tangles in Khovanov homology by considering a natural inverse system of Khovanov homology groups. As application, we derive an invariant of strongly invertible knots; this invariant takes the form of a graded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Liam Watson

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

Khovanov homology extends to singular links via a categorified analogue of Vassiliev skein relation. In view of Vassiliev theory, the extended Khovanov homology can be seen as Vassiliev derivatives of Khovanov homology. In this paper, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Jun Yoshida

For a connected cobordism S between two knots K1,K2 in S3, we establish an inequality involving the number of local maxima, the genus of S, and the torsion orders of Kht(K1),Kht(K2), where Kht denotes Lee's perturbation of Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Zipei Zhuang

This short note resolves the most important part of the PS braid conjecture while introducing the first known examples of knots and links with odd torsion of order 9, 27, 81, and 25 in their even Khovanov homology.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Sujoy Mukherjee

Khovanov homology is a powerful link invariant: a categorification of the Jones polynomial that enjoys a rich and beautiful algebraic structure. This homology theory has been extensively studied and it has become an ubiquitous topic in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Gabriel Montoya-Vega

Quasi-alternating links are a natural generalization of alternating links. In this paper, we show that quasi-alternating links are "homologically thin" for both Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology. In particular, their bigraded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-03-26 Ciprian Manolescu , Peter Ozsvath

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

We prove that the length of any gap in the differential grading of the Khovanov homology of any quasi-alternating link is one. As a consequence, we obtain that the length of any gap in the Jones polynomial of any such link is one. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Khaled Qazaqzeh , Nafaa Chbili

In these notes, I will sketch a new approach to Khovanov homology of knots and links based on counting the solutions of certain elliptic partial differential equations in four and five dimensions. The equations are formulated on four and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Edward Witten

Let L be a null homologous link in $\mathbb{RP}^3$. We define Khovanov-type homologies of L which depend on an extra input $\alpha = (V_0,V_1,f,g)$ consisting of two graded vectors spaces and two maps between them. With some specific choice…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Daren Chen

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

Given an annular link $L$, there is a corresponding augmented link $\widetilde{L}$ in $S^3$ obtained by adding a meridian unknot component to $L$. In this paper, we construct a spectral sequence with the second page isomorphic to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Hongjian Yang

A periodic link, is link in $S^3$ with action of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ by rotation with $2\pi/p$ around a fixed unknot $U$. The equivariant Khovanov homology of periodic links has been studied in \cite{BP17}. We prove that the equivariant Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Siavash Jafarizadeh