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We construct an infinite family of homology theories of framed links in thickened surfaces, as well as a homology theory whose graded Euler characteristic is exactly the Kauffman bracket of the link in the surface. Both theories are based…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-03 Jeffrey Boerner

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

In this note, we prove the existence of a tri-graded Khovanov-type bicomplex (Theorem 1.2). The graded Euler characteristic of the total complex associated with this bicomplex is the colored Jones polynomial of a link. The first grading of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Noboru Ito

We refine Khovanov homology in the presence of an involution on the link. This refinement takes the form of a triply-graded theory, arising from a pair of filtrations. We focus primarily on strongly invertible knots and show, for instance,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Andrew Lobb , Liam Watson

We construct smooth concordance invariants of knots which take the form of piecewise linear maps from [0,1] to R, one for each n greater than or equal to 2. These invariants arise from sl(n) knot cohomology. We verify some properties which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Lukas Lewark , Andrew Lobb

We construct an equivariant colored sl(N)-homology for links, which generalizes both the colored sl(N)-homology defined by the author and the equivariant sl(N)-homology defined by Krasner. The construction is a straightforward…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Hao Wu

The WRT invariant of a link L in S2xS1 at sufficiently high values of the level r can be expresses as an evaluation of a special polynomial invariant of L at 2r-th root of unity. We categorify this polynomial invariant by associating to L a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-10 Lev Rozansky

If $P$ is a prime number, we show that reduced $\mathfrak{sl}(P)$ link homology with coefficients in $\mathbf{Z}/P$ detects split links. The argument uses Dowlin's spectral sequence and sutured Floer homology with twisted coefficients. When…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Joshua Wang

We construct an $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-action on equivariant $\mathfrak{gl}_N$-link homologies. As a consequence we obtain an action of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ on these homologies as well as a $p$-DG structures for $p$ a prime number. We explore…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 You Qi , Louis-Hadrien Robert , Joshua Sussan , Emmanuel Wagner

Viewing the BRAID invariant as a generator of link Floer homology we generalise work of Baldwin-Vela-Vick to obtain rank bounds on the next to top grading of knot Floer homology. These allow us to classify links with knot Floer homology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Fraser Binns , Subhankar Dey

In two previous papers, the author showed how to decompose the Khovanov homology of a link $\mathcal{L}$ into the algebraic pairing of a type D structure and a type A structure (as defined in bordered Floer homology), whenever a diagram for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Lawrence Roberts

This article gives matrix factorizations for the trivalent diagrams and double line appearing in $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ quantum link invariant. These matrix factorizations reconstruct Khovanov-Rozansky homology. And we show that the Euler…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yasuyoshi Yonezawa

Khovanov homology is a recently introduced invariant of oriented links in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It categorifies the Jones polynomial in the sense that the (graded) Euler characteristic of the Khovanov homology is a version of the Jones polynomial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Alexander N. Shumakovitch

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

Khovanov homology of a link and chromatic graph homology are known to be isomorphic in a range of homological gradings that depend on the girth of a graph. We discuss patterns shared by these two homology theories. In particular, we improve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Radmila Sazdanovic , Daniel Scofield

We compute the categorified sl(N) link invariants as defined by Khovanov and Rozansky, for various links and values of N. This is made tractable by an algorithm for reducing tensor products of matrix factorisations to finite rank, which we…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Nils Carqueville , Daniel Murfet

In their recent preprint, Baldwin, Ozsv\'{a}th and Szab\'{o} defined a twisted version (with coefficients in a Novikov ring) of a spectral sequence, previously defined by Ozsv\'{a}th and Szab\'{o}, from Khovanov homology to Heegaard-Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Daniel Kriz , Igor Kriz

In this paper, we describe a canopolis (i.e. categorified planar algebra) formalism for Khovanov and Rozansky's link homology theory. We show how this allows us to organize simplifications in the matrix factorizations appearing in their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Ben Webster

We introduce the notion of a Khovanov-Floer theory. Roughly, such a theory assigns a filtered chain complex over Z/2 to a link diagram such that (1) the E_2 page of the resulting spectral sequence is naturally isomorphic to the Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-19 John A. Baldwin , Matthew Hedden , Andrew Lobb

This paper realises the Khovanov homology of a link in the 3-sphere as a Lagrangian Floer cohomology group, establishing a conjecture of Seidel and the second author. The starting point is the previously established formality theorem for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Mohammed Abouzaid , Ivan Smith