Khovanov skein lasagna modules with $1$-dimensional inputs
Geometric Topology
2025-10-08 v1 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We construct a variant of Khovanov skein lasagna modules, which takes the Khovanov homology in connected sums of defined by Rozansky and Willis as the input link homology. To carry out the construction, we prove functoriality of Rozansky-Willis's homology for cobordisms in a class of -manifolds that we call -dimensional relative -handlebody complements, by using, as a bypass, an isomorphism proved by Sullivan--Zhang relating the Rozansky-Willis homology and the classical Khovanov skein lasagna module of links on the boundary of . Along the way, we also present new results on diffeomorphism groups, on Gluck twists for Khovanov skein lasagna modules, and on the functoriality of foams.
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@article{arxiv.2510.05273,
title = {Khovanov skein lasagna modules with $1$-dimensional inputs},
author = {Qiuyu Ren and Ian Sullivan and Paul Wedrich and Michael Willis and Melissa Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05273},
year = {2025}
}
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88 pages, many figures in color