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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.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601629,
  title  = {Link homology theories from symplectic geometry},
  author = {Ciprian Manolescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601629},
  year   = {2007}
}

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47 pages, 6 figures; revised version

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