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Knots in Washington XVIII; Khovanov homology
May 28-30, 2004
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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Categorifications of quantum group representations.
by
Mikhail Khovanov
University of California, Davis

We give examples of categories whose Grothendieck groups are various representations of simple Lie algebras and quantum groups, and explain how they relate to known and conjectural link homology theories.

Date received: May 18, 2004


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