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Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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Khovanov homology of virtual knots
by
Oleg Viro
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden), Steklov Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia)

A category of alternatable virtual links is introduced and Khovanov homology of them with integer coefficients are defined. Homology with integer coefficients defined recently by Manturov for any virtual link is represented as a composition of this construction and geometric constructions.

Date received: February 4, 2005

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