Link homology theories from symplectic geometry
Symplectic Geometry
2007-05-23 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
For each positive integer n, Khovanov and Rozansky constructed an invariant of links in the form of a doubly-graded cohomology theory whose Euler characteristic is the sl(n) link polynomial. We use Lagrangian Floer cohomology on some suitable affine varieties to build a similar series of link invariants, and we conjecture them to be equal to those of Khovanov and Rozansky after a collapsation of the bigrading. Our work is a generalization of that of Seidel and Smith, who treated the case n=2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0601629,
title = {Link homology theories from symplectic geometry},
author = {Ciprian Manolescu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601629},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
47 pages, 6 figures; revised version