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Knots in Washington XXXI; Categorification, Quandles, Quantum knots and Quantum computing
December 3-5, 2010
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU, NSF), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Colored Morton-Franks-Williams inequalities
by
Hao Wu
George Washington University

We generalize the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality to the colored sl(N) link homology, which gives infinitely many new bounds for the braid index and the self linking number. A key ingredient of our proof is a composition product for the general MOY graph polynomial, which generalizes that of Wagner.

Date received: November 26, 2010

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